Hi,

My AXE75 gets internet via our general network, i get the IP 192.168.100.32.

The Archer creates it's own network 192.168.123.0.

Here the status page:

Then I have a client (printer) with a fixed IP 192.168.123.101:

Finally I created a port forwarding to the client: 

Now I can open up the webinterface from a client in the master network with IP 192.168.100.x through the Archer's current public IP: 192.168.100.32:8251

This works well!

Now I did the setup for my OpenVPN connection. The Archer is a client and gets it's fix IP 10.8.0.123 from the OpenVPN server under 10.8.0.1. The generated .ovpn file was uploaded and the OpenVPN client successfully connects to the server.

This is the moment when the port forwarding stops working, even from the same network at the archer itself. It's loading forever until a very long timeout.

The same configuration is used with another device (not at the same time obviously), the GL-MT300N-V2 Mini Smart Router, and there are no problems at all.

Why is this not working anymore as soon as I connect to the OpenVPN? Do I need extra routing? Since it's a timeout I guess this could be a routing issue?

I read in another thread https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/183862 where the fixed IP was the problem. I also tried to fix the IP in the printer but with the same result.

Thanks for any help!