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From: Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:58:41 -0400
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To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>, help-guix@gnu.org, oury.dustin@posteo.net

> I think if you activate both services, it will work. Openvpn creates a new virtual network device that gets its own ip and network configuration. It's configured to go through your actual device via routes. Tor will simply try to communicate with another server on the internet. If openvpn has configured your computer to have a default route through the vpn, then tor connection will have no choice but to go through the vpn. Does it make sense?
> 
> You can check what your routes are with "ip r".

Thanks. I thought of same. So, the vpn and tor operate in different levels as
per OSI model right? I think vpn works in a lower level than tor and that is why
the tor is forced to route via vpn?

Also, how should I configure my "openvpn-client-service" for this? All I have is
".ovpn" file from my vpn provider. Can you please guide with a code snippet?

Regards,
RG.