VPN on virtual machine

[Michael Butash]

I use transmission-daemon as a server on the vm with the vpn, and connect
to the server on port 9091 with a transmission-remote client on your local
lan workstation.  The vpn should override your default routing, and make
sure to kill ipv6 as a sysctl too.  I setup a dns for the local server ip
running the transmission server, and make it available on a bridged
interface to the rest of my lan.  I use stickshift on my phone to
manage/view them then.  I usually run squid socks proxy on it too, using a
proxy switcher on chrome as an extension to flip between on and off use out
that connection as well.

For extra credit, I setup unbound to do encrypted dns to cloudflare on it
via some google tutorials, and I use zerotier as a link all my servers and
clients into a local-ish lan vpn that I can access on cell, work, public
wifi, wherever really.  Check them out at zerotier.com.

-mb

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:56 PM Jim <jim.nantz15 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I finally got the vpn working, but I'm having trouble with bittorrent.  So
> far I've tried Deluge. The next time I have time to mess with it, I can try
> another bittorrent client.  Michael, which one do you use?
>
> On 09/18/2018 11:35 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>
> How are you configuring the openvpn connection?  Using PIA vpn, they give
> you an openvpn file to connect with, or at least did last I set it up, and
> otherwise should just need the package dependencies installed with openvpn.
>
> I'd say launch openvpn via the cli in debug to see what errors it's giving
> with the ovpn file.
>
> Bridge or nat should be irrelevant, I've run mine both ways.  You should
> only need ports 1194 out to your VPN provider, you don't need to port
> forward one back, and actually recommend you do NOT unless you're wanting
> an openvpn server yourself to connect back to.  Mine works fine out via NAT.
>
> -mb
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:57 PM Jim <jim.nantz15 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I decided to try a virtual machine for bittorrent.  The host machine
>> runs kubuntu 14.04 with 4GB RAM. I've installed virtualbox 5.2.18.  The
>> virtual machine is running lubuntu 18 and has 1GB RAM.  The problem is
>> with the vpn.  I can't get openvpn or pptp to work.  I configured them
>> using the same instructions I did on the host machine.  When I try to
>> start a VPN connction(openvpn or pptp)  on the guest machine, the icon
>> appears to show it's trying to connect, then it just stops without
>> offering any error message.  In  Virtualbox's settings for the guest
>> machine under network, I chose attached to NAT.
>>
>> Any ideas what I should do different?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>
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