From: oury.dustin@posteo.net
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: Help guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Tor over VPN
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:52:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a83a9ebee505328c05504b2afaaf0764@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C4FA1E68-CC4F-42EA-AD73-42D9B34AF7D5@lepiller.eu>
Could you explain it with some code from a configuration file as an
example?
On 12.06.2019 09:08, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Le 12 juin 2019 04:26:54 GMT+02:00, oury.dustin@posteo.net a écrit :
>> I too wish to get an answer to this so it would be easy for somebody
>> non-technical to wrap their head around it. I'm currently doing
>> open-vpn
>> as root from the desktop and then running tor after it and configuring
>> icecat afterwards to connect to TOR
>>
>> On 11.06.2019 22:27, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
>>> Hello Guix!
>>>
>>> 1) How to use tor over vpn? That is, my system should connect to tor
>>> network via
>>> vpn.
>>> 2) Should I enable both tor-service-type and openvpn-client-service?
>>> 3) Do tor and vpn operate on same level as per OSI model?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> RG.
>
> 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".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-12 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-11 20:27 Tor over VPN Raghav Gururajan
2019-06-12 2:26 ` oury.dustin
2019-06-12 7:08 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-06-12 12:52 ` oury.dustin [this message]
2019-06-12 13:58 ` Raghav Gururajan
2019-06-12 13:48 ` Raghav Gururajan
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