Hello people I have a Jellyfin server running on an Ubuntu laptop. But I am also using Mullvad VPN on that laptop for torrenting purposes. Is there a way that I can access the Jellyfin server from another computer in my home network and keep the VPN running at the same time?
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Probably if you split tunnel the vpn connection from mullvad to your torrent application and not run the vpn for the entire laptop’s network stack this could be done.
Alternatively, dockerize the entire vpn+torrent (+jellyfin) setup? That way the container gets the vpn but you can still access using your host ip for jellyfin.
Seconding dockerizing the torrent client with a VPN. My approach was using a gluetun container (https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun) and pointing qbittorrent to use that container’s network adapter
can also look into haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
it’s transmission that won’t run unless it’s connected to the VPN
I’ve been hearing a lot about it but never tried it, have some experience with docker through uni work but what would be the advantages of using a container for torrents?
The biggest advantage is ease of setup and its recommended by many guides, especially if you are interested in *arr stack (google “servarr wiki” - next level torrenting).
For VPN and torrenting, Id suggest switching to airvpn or any other that supports port forwarding (mullvad got rid of it recently).
If you setup torrent client and VPN using gluetun container, you can hide trafic for torrents only (or whatever services you want). Then you can install wireguard server and use that to connect remotely to your jellyfin. At least I have it like that
I’m planning on doing this personally, as my setup is a bit complex (Protonvpn doesn’t have port forwarding on wireguard supported very well on Linux, so I have some helpers running that make it work). Setting this up each time (and on each computer I want to torrent on) is a bit of a pain. If you do all of your setup and dockerize it, you can just pull the container on each new install/machine (0 setup)
No need to split tunnel. Mullvad has options in the app to allow local networking. Just have to enable it.
Since mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding anymore, you’ll want to split tunnel it outside of the vpn. However, if you’re considering switching vpn’s at all, airvpn has a dynamic dns service (and port forwarding) which you can set up to have a static url for your jellyfin.
Just be sure to enable the DLNA server and allow remote connections in the jellyfin settings either way.
