Issues with VPN over SSH on Raspberry Pi

VPN
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I have a Raspberry Pi set up with OpenVPN. I’m using the Network Manager (on Linux Mint) as the client, and I want to connect to SSH remotely.

Since my laptop and my Pi are both on the same Wi-Fi connection, I switched my laptop to a hotspot from my phone, and then switched on the VPN. It worked as expected.

I tried to limit the IP address to the Pi’s IP address in the firewall, but the SSH server rejected the connection. When I checked the journal on the Pi, SSH logged the hotspot address instead of the VPN address.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this not possible on the same machine?

2

Just use Wireguard instead. Way better

3

It won’t work no matter what. I even tried it with an SSH tunnel. Oh well…

4

SSH to the rpi’s OpenVPN tunnel address

5

Are you trying to SSH into the open on IP on the pi, or the LAN IP of the PI?

6

Thanks for the replies, but I’ve given up on it. It really isn’t that big of a deal.

7

How can I learn about something like this that you are doing? Is there a website for this? Or just you bought the raspberry and learned through trial and error.