Route Bittorrent traffic through vpn tunnel

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jclay06
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Route Bittorrent traffic through vpn tunnel

I've recently installed kong's build 24865M with transmission on my Netgear R7000.

I'm trying to figure out if there is a simple way of forcing transmission to operate on the OpenVPN client tunnel I have setup in DD-WRT.

I've tried searching, but can't make much sense of the iptables rules.

Any suggestions?

Accid
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Hi

Hi
Have you gotten the transmission to work successfully.

jclay06
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Yeah, Transmission works just

Yeah, Transmission works just fine.
It sort of hogs some RAM if you get it going over a couple of MB/sec, but the CPU usage is still under 30%.

Still no luck on the iptables and given the nature of the beast, I'd like to be certain I'm not leaking traffic or my host IP address out.

Accid
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Would you mind posting your

Would you mind posting your settings via a picture or instructions.

jclay06
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Settings for what?

Settings for what?

Transmission works pretty much "out of the box" with the BT builds, as long as you have an EXT3 partition mounted to either /jffs or /opt, enable Transmission and give it a folder to reside in.

I don't know where to begin with the iptables (assuming that's the correct option), as I have not dabbed into that world in a while, and this isn't the type of thing I want to guess on.
It seems that it has the ability to know certain protocols (Bittorrent being one of them), but I don't feel that will be all-encompassing of the packets that Transmission will use to sniff out trackers and peers.