OpenVPN using port 64999 in addition to the port I selected

[GNUGradyn]

Hi. I'm trying to setup OpenVPN for use with another project. I had this working previously for quite some time via this script but had issues after reinstalling openVPN via the script. I can connect via the normal openVPN desktop application, but not with the other project.

I did some poking around via wireshark and noticed that when connected to the VPN via the desktop application, port 64999 is used in addition to the port I selected (1194). The other project I am trying to work with runs in a docker container that does not expect this behavior and therefore does not properly configure its firewall to account for this.

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Why is the VPN behaving this way? Why is it using port 64999 in addition to the VPN port? Additional details on guillaumedsde/alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn#135

[GNUGradyn]

nevermind, i had forgotten to specify the direction of the traffic in wireshark. my bad.