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To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
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Could you explain it with some code from a configuration file as an=20
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 =C3=A9crit :
>> 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
>>=20
>> On 11.06.2019 22:27, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
>>> Hello Guix!
>>>=20
>>> 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?
>>>=20
>>> Thank you!
>>>=20
>>> Regards,
>>> RG.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> You can check what your routes are with "ip r".