Alternative VPN Clients

Alternative VPN Clients

[Dexter Morgan]

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Re: Alternative VPN Clients

[Joshua Branson]

"Dexter Morgan" <dextermorgan@asia.com> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> My friend introduced me to GNU/Linux and installed GuixSD on my laptop. I am just
> getting started on Bash. I find that there is absence of VPN clients as an alternative to
> OpenVPN. Can some one please package the following alternative VPN clients:

Thanks for mentioning this.

>
> 1) Bitmask: https://bitmask.net/en
>
> 2) Netsplice: https://www.ipredator.se/netsplice
>
> They will also be very useful to other users. :)

Can you try packaging them?  Packaging programs can be a little easier
than you think.  :)  Why don't you give it a try, and if you run into
any issues, you could ask for help?

>
> Thank you.
>

-- 
Joshua Branson
Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Alternative VPN Clients

[Danny Milosavljevic]

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Hi,

if you want to package bitmask, you can try:

$ guix import pypi leap.bitmask

This will print a package definition.

You can put it into a file "bitmask.scm" inside the directory $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH (you may have to set that environment variable first) with the following header:

(define-module (bitmask)
  #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
  #:use-module (guix packages)
  #:use-module (guix download)
  #:use-module (guix utils)
  #:use-module (guix build-system python)
  #:use-module (guix gexp)
  #:use-module (gnu packages)
  #:use-module (gnu packages base)
  #:use-module (gnu packages cross-base)
  #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
  #:use-module (gnu packages python)
  #:use-module (gnu packages python-xyz))
(define-public python-leap.bitmask

Then you can try it out with

$ guix build --rounds=2 -K python-leap.bitmask

If there are more packages missing, you can generate them all via:

$ guix import pypi -r leap.bitmask

and also put them in the file, adding "(define-public ..." before each block.

For netsplice, it's very similar--but for some reason their package is not
available on PyPI, so you'd have to write the package definition yourself
(just copy the python-leap.bitmask one and modify it - especially the name,
URL and expected checksum - until it works).

If there are any problems please ask on this list.

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Re: Alternative VPN Clients

[Dexter Morgan]

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Re: Alternative VPN Clients

[Leo Famulari]

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 06:01:49AM +0200, Dexter Morgan wrote:
> My friend introduced me to GNU/Linux and installed GuixSD on my laptop. I am
> just getting started on Bash. I find that there is absence of VPN clients as an
> alternative to OpenVPN. Can some one please package the following alternative
> VPN clients:

Just FYI, we have a WireGuard package that works well. You may find it
superior to traditional VPN systems.

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Re: Alternative VPN Clients

[Dexter Morgan]

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Re: Alternative VPN Clients

[swedebugia]

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On 2019-04-28 11:17, Dexter Morgan wrote:
> How can I use it with GNOME NetworkManager ?

I think thats not supported yet.

>  
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 2:37 PM
> *From:* "Leo Famulari" <leo@famulari.name>
> *To:* "Dexter Morgan" <dextermorgan@asia.com>
> *Cc:* guix-devel@gnu.org
> *Subject:* Re: Alternative VPN Clients
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 06:01:49AM +0200, Dexter Morgan wrote:
>> My friend introduced me to GNU/Linux and installed GuixSD on my
> laptop. I am
>> just getting started on Bash. I find that there is absence of VPN
> clients as an
>> alternative to OpenVPN. Can some one please package the following
> alternative
>> VPN clients:
> 
> Just FYI, we have a WireGuard package that works well. You may find it
> superior to traditional VPN systems.

This seems to require support from the VPN provider and will not work
with traditional (open)VPN-providers e.g. Riseup.

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Cheers Swedebugia


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