I run proxy through RPi3b+ that is installed in another country. I want to open a port on RPi that is being used by qbittorent on main machine which is 6881. Is there any way to do it?

I have used ufw enable 6881/tcp but it seems not to work. And I tried miniupnp but it fails to ind IGD which must be there cause router does have UPnP tailscale port open automatically. Am I doing something wrong?

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I run proxy through RPi3b+ that is installed in another country. I want to open a port on RPi that is being used by qbittorent on main machine which is 6881. Is there any way to do it?

Probably not... but it might depend on what you're actually attempting to do.

What is port 6881 in qBittorrent? Is that a proxy port that qBittorrent is using, or are you referring to something else?

And what is it you want to do with the open port on the RPi?

The reason I ask is that qBittorrent does not have any support for incoming bittorrent connections when using a proxy. In other words the qBittorrent Listening Port is ignored when you put it into Proxy mode. Using a proxy in qBittorrent means never having an open port for incoming bittorrent connections, you're always firewalled / not connectable in that configuration.

If that's what you're trying to do it won't work but maybe it could work in a future update eventually.. if you're trying to do something else you may want to expand in your post (?)

e.g.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/21134

https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/7726

https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/8003

PS - Some other communities you can try

!qbittorrent@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!qbittorrent@lemmy.ml

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago

    Using a proxy in qBittorrent means never having an open port for incoming bittorrent connections, you’re always firewalled / not connectable in that configuration.

    I guess case is solved. This is exactly what I wanted to do, and it seems that it wont work.

    What is interesting to me is that on rpi3 iptables -L shows tailnet IP with port 6881 listening. Also, wanted to note that pinging subnet ip of NAS from rpi3 works, but pinging tailnet IP ends in 100% packet loss.

    Anyway, thanks for mentioning that. Guess I am stuck.

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