VPN and Port Forwarding

[Keith Moores]

Ever since using SoulSeekQt I have had an issue with not being able to open the Listening Ports, despite having opened them on my Router. I have now discovered that the issue is my VPN, which does not allow ports to be opened. Is anyone using a VPN that allows this? and if so which one?

[mrbar...@gmail.com]

My VPS (which I connect to with openvpn, or sometimes a socks5 ssh tunnel, but then I have to use tsock to hide my IP address on slsk or any application with no "Network" or "Proxy" options, but I get through with UPnP fine, they won't open the port needed for slsk since they don't support it or any seedbox-like vps slsk apps like museek. The problem I have now after not using slsk for almost a year is that my searches work fine for 5 minutes then I can't find anything, even if I search for something extremely common like say NOFX. Weird. Some VPN providers do provide dashboards to open some ports though, but it's kind of against the point of using a vpn, upnp should take care of it.

[Vol Veeg]

Mullvad supports port forwarding (for both Openvpn & Wireguard) and does the trick for Soulseek.

[mrbar...@gmail.com]

What's Mullvad? A new slsk client? Haven't seen one since way back in 2010-2016 where I used Nicotine+++ in Linux (Debian 8, LMDE 2, Ubuntu MATE) or it's a VPN with customizable port forwarding?