VPN on virtual machine

Thu Sep 20 14:30:58 MST 2018

yeah, but a simple web interface to manage it, on of etc, and then the
torrent interface.

That would be a nice tool.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:48 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I've begun looking into dockerizing it a few times, others have done them
> separately, always the scripting and networking seem problematic as needing
> to spawn openvpn inside of it, and allow multiple inbound socket
> translations to the local servers.
>
> I've cloned my instance a few times to make portable or change to drop to
> different drives automatically, and configs are fairly portable, but
> scripting it cleanly to deploy in docker is beyond my abilities and current
> desire to want to learn.  My reaper VM is small enough it doesn't bother me
> to have it (or a few) running, and was portable to reconfig to work in kvm
> from vbox recently.
>
> -mb
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:29 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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