VPN on virtual machine

[Stephen Partington]

This would be a fascinating docker container idea.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:00 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> The VM is pretty lightweight, I give it 2 cores and 2gb of ram, though
> looking it's only using 102m of ram with everything running, but my current
> pc is loaded with ram, so I don't much split harirs these days.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:49 AM Jim <jim.nantz15 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the advice.  I'll have to do some more reading to understand
>> all that well enough to try it myself, and get some cash together before I
>> buy a computer that will support all that.
>>
>> I have a Dell 32 bit dinosaur (wallace kubuntu 14) and this computer
>> (ladmo kubuntu 18 64 bit).  I have apache2 on wallace so I can share the
>> occasional file with friends.  Instead of taking a short sound clip and
>> making a video out of it so I can share it with friends on facebook, I just
>> put it on wallace and give them the url.  I also keep copies of my pictures
>> and music collection on wallace.  So I have /var/www/html on wallace and
>> the user account on wallace mounted on ladmo via nfs.   I also have an ssh
>> server on wallace so I can access it from ladmo and so I can transfer files
>> between my phone and wallace via sftp.  I had wallace connected to the
>> router via the 100 mbit nic built into it until Saturday when I found a
>> gigabit nic in the cabinet where I keep boxes of parts.
>>
>> Good luck with your setup Michael.  I would suspect nobody knows what
>> you're doing online except the CIA. :-)
>>
>> On 09/19/2018 10:34 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>
>> 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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