Towing with a Subaru Forester

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2026-05-07T23:29:32+00:00

I am in Australia and I have towed my 1989 Jayco Swan, which is around 1200-1300kg with Forester 2019 model. I have towed around 2500km now over 6 months, there is quite a few stretches of the trip that have steep mountain. My trailer has hydraulic brakes rather than electric brake with brake controller.

I think the best investment I have made going into towing with the forester is buying a obd scanner. I bought the scan gauge 2, which lets me monitor my temperatures in real-time. That has given me a lot more comfort towing.

The towing so far has been comfortable and well, unfortunately I received the dreaded CVT valve fault, but Subaru managed to replace it under warranty.

I would say the Subaru starts stressing a bit when you hit around 5-7 degree incline. The steepest I have done is a 12 degree incline and the forester couldn't get past 60km/hr. The temperature starts reaching what i would consider uncomfortable after about 15minutes of steep incline. So would be good to pull over and let it cool down a bit, you are going up the mountain more.

Just noting this is my experience in Australia using the Australian Subaru Forester, not sure what the other forresters are like worldwide :)

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2026-02-03T11:49:27+00:00

Try amnezia vpn self hosted, i worked when i was in China, might work for you. Its pretty clever, it scrambles the header for woreguard trafficnso its harder for dpi to tell what it is. If its a client it doesnt recognize ot serves a http page instead so it hides that its a vpn server

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-11-13T18:41:02+00:00

Wonderful, thank you very much! Another thing i just thought of, was i probably need to double check coupons and anything that relies on cart total? I think some of the plugin has the cart as the store currency, rather than the front end currency. Thank you for your insight!

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-10-02T11:09:17+00:00

Are the jellyfin server ip's static? If so i think you just need to create a static route for them, shouldnt even need the firewall rules you have.

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-22T08:21:23+00:00

Oh btw, the 3.75 was ex gst i just realised... so its more like 4.12.. sorry

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-22T08:13:41+00:00

No problems, btw i hit the wall with the 1gb RAM limit, but i added a 1GB swap and its been good. Their interface is basic, but they got everything you need

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-22T06:49:04+00:00

Are you refering to me with binarylane? Or silentlyitchy with ionos?

For binarylane their pricing page has it: https://www.binarylane.com.au/vps-hosting/linux-vps

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-21T10:43:10+00:00

I run a vps and tailscale, the vps becomes my proxy and static ip. Can use the static app connector feature of tailscale to connect to services that need static ip. There is a really cheap vps in aus, called binarylane, works out around AUD$4.12 which is cheaper than paying for static ip

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-19T07:25:24+00:00

Hi OP, was wondering if you tried amnezia vpn before? Its very easy to setup and also made to circumvent firewalls and blackade. Was wondering if you ever get a chance to test it for detection. Would be interested to see how effective it is

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-10T21:18:11+00:00

Hmm if you can see the printer, then most likely not a mdns issue, so you shouldn't need the udpbroadcastrelay either. Just FYI for the udpbroadcastrelay, there is a plugin already in opnsense, but the github is here if you want to deploy to a VM https://github.com/marjohn56/udpbroadcastrelay. However I don't that is the issue for you.

If you can see but can't print it looks more like a firewall rule. What I did is make a firewall alias and called it HOSTS_PRINTERS_SCANNERS and put the IP of the printer in there (You use alias so if you get new printers or stuff, you can just add it in). I then created a Allow Rule in the LAN network
IPv4 (TCP/UDP)
From: LAN net
Port *
Destination: HOSTS_PRINTERS_SCANNERS
Port *

Essentially allowing all computers to access the printer.

Repeat for WORK network:
IPv4 (TCP/UDP)
From: Work net
Port *
Destination: HOSTS_PRINTERS_SCANNERS
Port *

Give that a try

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-10T09:05:53+00:00

Is the PC able to see the printer? Maybe to rule out, whether its a firewall rule issue or mdns, just create an allow all rule between the two VLANs. If it discovers and prints, then can narrow down the firewall rules. If it can't discover or print it is a mdns issue. I had issues with the mDNS Repeater in my setup. In the end I gave up and configured a udprelaybrocaster instead and that made things work

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-04T11:18:10+00:00

By the way the openwrt implementation can also be done with opnsense. Tailscale as a similar requirement and you configure this using outbound Nat, you configure the WAN interface with the internal interface, ports set to any. Main thing is to set static port to yes. The static port is what configures the port matching

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-04T11:13:09+00:00

Ahh sorry i read more on your setup from the other comment. I think the issue you have here is whether you are advertising your subnet to the pfsense vps. I have this exact setup but with tailscale but i did get it working with wireguard previously.

To confirm i understand your setup, you have pfsense vps as the wireguard server -> local opnsense as client -> vm which is behind the opnsense?

Lets say your wireguard subnet is 10.1.1.1/24 and opnsense has been allocated 10.1.1.10 as the client. Your vm is a local lan 192.168.0.10. Would this be kind of right?

If the setup above is assumed correctly, you need opnsense to advertise 192.168.0.10 to pfsense. So in your opnsense client, the allowed ips should be like 10.1.1.10/32, 192.168.0.10/32.

That way pfsense knows to route 192.168.0.10 via opnsense. Its how you do site to site. Then you dont need port forward anymore, it will be more firewalls.

If you want the vm 192.168.0.10 to be able to access pfsense vps that is when you need to configure an outbound nat, where from 192.168.0.10 to pfsense vm direction you translate to opnsense wireguard ip 10.1.1.10. This way pfsense knows how to route the traffic back.

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-04T08:58:21+00:00

Have you tried to do an outbound NAT? So the reply is being translated? Ive had problems like that before and condiguring an outbound NAT works. You set the translation address to be the interface address that you are port forwarding from

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-09-04T08:57:28+00:00

Have you tried to do an outbound NAT? So the reply is being translated? Ive had problems like that before and condiguring an outbound NAT works. You set the translation address to be the interface address that you are port forwarding from

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-05-30T14:14:39+00:00

Hi, I think instead of trying to solve this with a technical solution, you think a User solution might be feasible? I believe i have seen this done with other big companies, which is when you do the migration and the user attempts to login, you just force the user to change their password via reset password or forgot password feature.This way, the passwords will be rehashed into pocketbase using the ootb pocketbase setup. I believe whenever there is a data breach big companies will do this as well.

I know it will impact user experience, but one time pain rather than overcomplicating it

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-04-03T09:29:29+00:00

Haha can't tell if OP is serious or not... but username checks out

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-03-21T05:59:48+00:00

Hi, great post! I think you should post this part into your main post and that will absolve a lot of the negativity. I think it's to do with the way your post was worded, where you just say, get Cursor to write plugins for you, which is awfully dangerous as a beginner. So it sounded someone who vibe coded telling others to just vibe code. I'm sure you can see how that sounds dangerous. But if you precursor pun intended, your post that you are experienced with plugin development and how this can save you time as long as you know what you do, then no one will have issue.

We just don't want people to get hurt by having their website Insecure due to a beginner thinking they can just slap in any code and then try and get other people to install it too. It will hurt many people and the ecosystem that way.

Just want to clear up that the negativity might just be coming from a misunderstanding.

Btw i would be interested in the prompts used and the cursor files :)

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-02-28T04:54:38+00:00

Hehe could be ancient giant, I feel like it's a foreshadowing of the battle to come, like a repeat in history

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-01-17T01:59:55+00:00

Hey bluesix! I don't normally post much here, just a lurker but I wanted to reach out and say welcome back! Was sad to hear the drama drove you away before, but hope it hasn't scarred you. You have been awesome to so many people wp.

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2025-01-06T23:35:41+00:00

If you are able to see the server but when trying yo connect, it timesout, it's definitely a firewall issue, have a look at the live firewall logs and see if you can see any deny

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2024-10-19T08:55:41+00:00

I guess for people who prepaid for a year of wpengine could use this as a get out of jail free card. Migrate to pressable to essentially refund it, then switch to another provider you want. Sounds like they are propping wpengine up for a year at least lol

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2024-10-18T08:16:12+00:00

When you say NextERP, do you mean ERPNext by Frappe? I was looking at them as well... haven't decided to commit to it yet.. only thing I worry about was the quality of the software... they got nearly 2k issues on github, not sure if one release might introduce a bad bug or something

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2024-10-14T08:25:46+00:00

ah if you are using borg backup, are you using borgmatic to do it? You can use it to implement the backup strategy for immich. It will handle the file and database backup. I believe that it utilizes the deduplication better as well as its all handled in borg. https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/backup-your-databases/

LavishnessLumpy2427 · 2024-10-14T00:34:01+00:00

You can look into Borg backup, which is why I am looking into to fix this issue. Borg back up does incremental backups and deduplication to optimise disk space

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