# Pritunl Link public accessibility

**URL:** https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-link-public-accessibility/2946
**Category:** Pritunl VPN
**Tags:** pritunl-link
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-link-public-accessibility/2946 "2025-01-07T16:42:09Z")
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### Author: ![mat](https://forum.pritunl.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mat](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/mat)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-link-public-accessibility/2946/1 "2025-01-07T16:42:09Z")

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Hi,

is it possible that with Pritunl Link only one side has a public static IP address and a Link client only establishes an outgoing connection or is it really necessary that both sides must be publicly accessible?

We have an environment in which outgoing internet is available, but inbound port forwarding could not be set up for the public IP.

Thanks for the information.

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### Author: ![zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/user_avatar/forum.pritunl.com/zach/32/1105_2.png) [@zach](https://forum.pritunl.com/u/zach)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.pritunl.com/t/pritunl-link-public-accessibility/2946/2 "2025-01-07T20:52:55Z")

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It typically isn’t reliable having one side behind a NAT. Running `sudo pritunl-link custom-option-add "nat_traversal=yes"` on each link may also be needed.