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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[–] fatboy93@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] gpw@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

[–] nevernevermore@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

can also look into haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

it's transmission that won't run unless it's connected to the VPN

[–] gpw@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's a cool kill switch implementation, thanks for the repo. I tested my qbittorrent setup by shutting down the VPN container and it stopped all network connections in the qbit container

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