Looking for step by step instructions for how to portforward a PIA VPN on OPNsense

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Howdy,

I have a media server on my home network that I use for movies and such. I currently have all traffic on this media server go through a interface on OPNsense that is just a PIA VPN. At this time I have not port forwarded this VPN and my download speeds are suffering (2-3mb/s max) I hear port forwarding will likely fix this. However I have no idea how to do this on my OPNsense box. Would some be able to provide ne detailed instructions on how to do this?

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There should be an alias already named “pia_[country]_port”, assuming you have

"portForward": true

In your PIAWireguard.json file.

Then just create a NAT rule with destination WAN_PIAWG Address, port “pia_[the country you’re using]_port” and redirect to the server IP/port

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Easiest way by far is to leverage this awesome script that automates everything; creates the connection, the port forwarding, and the aliases. You have to paste your variables into the script on first run, but it’s easy peasy downstream after that.