SSH into Raspberry Pi connected to PIA

sw8lde

I want to be able to remotely ssh into my rpi, while my rpi is connected to PIA (via OpenVPN). I can ssh into the pi from my local network while the pi is connected to OpenVPN, and I can also ssh into the pi remotely while the pi is not connected to OpenVPN. But when I try to ssh into the pi remotely while the pi is connected to OpenVPN I get a connection timeout.

My idea was to connect to PIA, request port forwarding, set the ssh port to the port being forwarded, and then ssh [email protected]_IP -p PIA_PORT. I thought this would work but I just get a connection timeout.

sw8lde

EDIT: got it work work by doing this:

sudo ip rule add fwmark 65 table novpn
sudo ip route add default via <LOCAL_ROUTER_IP> dev eth0 table novpn
sudo ip route flush cache
sudo iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 2022 -j MARK --set-mark 65
sudo iptables -A INPUT -i tun0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 2022 -j DROP

Then I forwarded port 2022 on my router to my pi, and connected with:

ssh [email protected]<PUBLIC_ROUTER_IP> -p 2022

Omnibus_IV

Sure isn't plug-n-play, is it? LOL

Good job!