From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Lepiller Subject: Re: Tor over VPN Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:08:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <57a0917dc48b49a3961c3919aeaae0f2f9995fed.camel@disroot.org> <850227f7533ac7757c5c1c5201a40437@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1haxMX-0008O7-HK for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 03:08:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1haxMW-0007fL-CY for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 03:08:01 -0400 Received: from lepiller.eu ([2a00:5884:8208::1]:52492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1haxMW-0007c9-3x for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 03:08:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <850227f7533ac7757c5c1c5201a40437@posteo.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org, oury.dustin@posteo.net, Raghav Gururajan Le 12 juin 2019 04:26:54 GMT+02:00, oury=2Edustin@posteo=2Enet a =C3=A9crit= : >I too wish to get an answer to this so it would be easy for somebody=20 >non-technical to wrap their head around it=2E I'm currently doing >open-vpn=20 >as root from the desktop and then running tor after it and configuring=20 >icecat afterwards to connect to TOR > >On 11=2E06=2E2019 22:27, Raghav Gururajan wrote: >> Hello Guix! >>=20 >> 1) How to use tor over vpn? That is, my system should connect to tor=20 >> network via >> vpn=2E >> 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? >>=20 >> Thank you! >>=20 >> Regards, >> RG=2E I think if you activate both services, it will work=2E Openvpn creates a n= ew virtual network device that gets its own ip and network configuration=2E= It's configured to go through your actual device via routes=2E Tor will si= mply try to communicate with another server on the internet=2E If openvpn h= as configured your computer to have a default route through the vpn, then t= or connection will have no choice but to go through the vpn=2E Does it make= sense? You can check what your routes are with "ip r"=2E