Introduction To VPN And Here Is How to Use It In Linux

LinuxandUbuntu ^ | 10/26/17

[markomalley]

Private Internet Access (PIA) has a very nice launcher that works perfectly in Mint, as well.

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

These are mandatory as far as I’m concerned.

[taxcontrol]

If strong security is your preference, use OpenVPN

https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html

[TomGuy]

Opera browser now has VPN built in. It can access about 5 world-wide locations FREE [US, Canada, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany]. Additional locations are available for a pay-upgrade.

FYI

[2111USMC]

There is also a Firefox / Waterfox add-on called Voxx. It provides VPN through a large list of countries. It’s free.

Our ISP address got blocked by John Rob a while ago when they were having problems with attacks. Using Voxx or Opera is the only way we can now access FR.

Both work fine.

[Dr. Sivana]

ping for later

[JFoobar]

Linux Mint has it’s own dedicated Private Internet Access client called PIA Manager. Mint 18.3 will have a usermode PIA client.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/

Also consider Torguard. They have a standalone linux client that just works. No configuration needed. Neither log or are US dependent.

You should get a vpn before you even have internet access. It’s mandatory. With all the trackers, crazy laws, and hostile governments trying to bend people over, you have to have this now. Otherwise, everything you type will be aggregated for future use when you can least protect yourself.

PS- Windows 10 is literaaly spyware in a OS wrapper. Get off it.

[chuckles]

ping for later.

[markomalley]

Linux Mint has it’s own dedicated Private Internet Access client called PIA Manager. Mint 18.3 will have a usermode PIA client.

I know, I'm using it right now.

Also consider Torguard. They have a standalone linux client that just works. No configuration needed. Neither log or are US dependent.

Sadly, the trouble with TOR is that there are a WHOLE lot of sites that don't particularly like TOR and block them.

PS- Windows 10 is literaaly spyware in a OS wrapper. Get off it.

Indeed. Thus I've been using Linux Mint for several years.

[the_Watchman]

Two years ago, my son and I set up a VPN between our households. Each of us put up a dedicated VM running Linux. We ran the VPN across specific ports which we exposed on our house routers. Internally, we employed standard Linux port forwarding.

When the system was set up, I could access web pages from my iPad using WIFI while sitting on my family room sofa, where the web pages were being served by an Apache web server on my son’s linux box across town.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Get a dd-wrt router and everything on your network can be behind a VPN.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

[ptsal]

Thanks
Bookmark VPN

[wally_bert]

I use Air VPN.

Works well.

[Paladin2]

The TOR browser is apparently compromised by NSA and others. How secure from gov’t snooping are these private VPN operations?

[JFoobar]

I said Torguard.

https://torguard.net/

The have VPN servers in every Country on Earth.

[Bikkuri]

Voxx isn’t showing up in my add-ons search (Ice Dragon, which is FF 52) :/

And, I’m NOT going to use Opera (bought out by China, last I heard)..

[Bikkuri]

Whoa.. I didn’t even know about that.. will check it out (for KDE) :)

Thank you :D

[Bikkuri]

BM for Bikk (Linux)

[Crolis]

Thank you! I saw it’s actually called Hoxx but I’ve been looking for a VPN solution like this for some time.

[SanchoP]

You should change your DNS too and get off your ISP’s.