Wireguard VPN to DAppNode questions from a noob

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Hi all, total noob here, just setup dappnode on a newly built pc for the first time. Trying to set up VPN with wireguard.

couple of questions please:

  1. when I try to download the wireguard configuration file from my.dappnode it comes as a .txt file - but the wireguard desktop app is expecting me to upload a .zip or a .conf file. What am I doing wrong? Trying to ‘add empty tunnel’ and copying in the text from the textfile gives an error.

  2. dappnode docs tells me to “port-forward the following port: 51820” but on my router it asks for a ‘start port’ and a ‘finish port’ - I suppose one of them is 51820 but not sure which, and what should the other port be?

Many thanks!

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The start and finish will be the same at 51820. Some apps or use cases might necessitate a range (51820-51830) that’s where/how you specify a range.

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I’m not sure which guide your working from. To be able to see what step got missed. But yeah there a bunch of networking config that gets pasted/copied. Did the guide mention QR codes? That may be anther way to pass that info. I.e. your supposed to generate a QR code from the server that the client can import/read.

While it’s possible/easy to manually build the tunnel. It’s not exactly easy to explain without the same reference guide. Look to see if there’s an install guide using QR codes. That’s the easiest way to setup your wireguard client.

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Did you ever get this working? I was just trying to get a Wireguard VPN connection to my DAppNode working today, but nothing seems to work. I tried generating via the UI and via CLI by running dappnode_wireguard --local. I’ve added the credentials for each of these methods to the Wireguard client on my PC and activated them, but I still get a “This site can’t be reached” error for http://my.dappnode/.

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Excellent, thanks for this info :slight_smile:

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Thanks buddy, appreciate your reply. Thanks for the qr code suggestion…
In fact I did use that successfully on my mobile. This current problem is on my desktop computer. I’m using this guide https://docs.dappnode.io/user/guides/access/vpn/

About halfway down under the ‘windows’ heading it suggests I can ‘impprt tunnel from file’ but the file is a text file which cannot be imported. So I try to ‘add empty tunnel’ and copy the info in the format they show but it gives an error

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I had the same issue so just copy and pasted the contained info when I did mine.

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Great to know, thanks for sharing, I’ll press ahead with that route when back in the office in a few hours, thanks dude