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SaintWacko@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Ugh, I wish I could be more help on that, but I couldn’t get Mullvad to work that way either. I think what needs to be done is to use pfsense or something to create a virtual LAN, set the container running Mullvad to be the gateway on that network, then give each container a virtual network bridge connected to that virtual network. What I ended up doing was just installing Mullvad (through WireGuard) on the same container as qBitTorrent and telling qBitTorrent to use the virtual network device that Mullvad creates.
Fortunately, that’s the only thing that really needs to run through it for me (I think your Real Debrid will need to as well). AFAIK, the *arr stuff doesn’t need to be hidden.
As to getting things to talk to each other in containers, where were you having trouble? You should just be able to give all the *arr stuff the addresses where you reach the other ones. That may just be their IP address, or I run PiHole so I can have a local DNS and give them all their own hostnames.

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Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well I’ve had another go this morning and believe I’ve managed it. My problem seemed to be that I already had 5 devices in Mullvad through my tinkering, so I deleted one and made a new one (just as an fyi in case you hit the same issue).

So I followed this guy on YouTube to set up an Openwrt router VM www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mPbrunpjpk&t=897s

When you are able to route traffic through the VM stop following the tutorial and use this link instead to set up the VPN mullvad.net/en/help/running-wireguard-router

And apparently I’m now running the Openwrt router through Mullvad.

I did all the SSH parts in Console and I put my public key into the website through the Mullvad link above and copied the IP addresses from the same page.

Hope this helps

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- SaintWacko@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nice! Glad to hear that works. I’ll have to give it another go. I had spent the whole day trying to get Mullvad (without WireGuard) working, but it kept failing to create the tun device, so by the time I got it working with WireGuard I didn’t really feel like trying to figure out the VLAN thing too lol.
  
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  - Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is with Wireguard too, it’s just inside OpenWRT.
    
    I’ve put my Windows VM behind it and checked it’s working and it is, but now I can’t access Plex and SMB lol, more tinkering when I finish work I guess
    
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Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I probably can get the container way working now I’ve had some time with it. The problem is routing it through Mullvad. Prowlarr deffo needs to go through it, otherwise it can’t see the indexers (I’ve been using Prowlarr without a VPN for a while and it’s much better with it). Debrid doesn’t need a VPN I just prefer it to be there

I watched a YouTube tutorial to get an OpenWRT container set up to route traffic through ,and managed to get it working. I struggled however to set the VPN up through it, I feel like I was in spitting distance!

The bonus of using that method was that I could have multiple containers use the OpenWRT container, meaning they would all share the same IP address and just have different ports, so all my Self Hosted containers would be in the same place on my network.

I’ll keep plugging away and give pfsense a look. Now that I have OMV running I can kill my Windows server without losing the media

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