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vpn compatibility
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:02 pm
by arky217
Running MX Linux 17.1
Does anyone use PrivateInternetAccess VPN ?
If not, what VPN services are known to be compatible with MX Linux ?
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:04 pm
by richb
arky217 wrote: Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:02 pm
Running MX Linux 17.1
Does anyone use PrivateInternetAccess VPN ?
If not, what VPN services are known to be compatible with MX Linux ?
I do It works well.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:28 am
by towwire
arky217 wrote: Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:02 pm
Running MX Linux 17.1
Does anyone use PrivateInternetAccess VPN ?
If not, what VPN services are known to be compatible with MX Linux ?
Do an internet search for vpn reviews and look for one for linux.
My brother uses windscribe which runs fine on MX-17.1 and it's free. If you decide on it I can have my brother send me his link you can use which will give him and you an extra Gig.
I use a payed one Expressvpn which you will need to search here as it requires a fix to work without using systemd.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:47 am
by Mauser
arky217 wrote: Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:02 pm
Running MX Linux 17.1
Does anyone use PrivateInternetAccess VPN ?
If not, what VPN services are known to be compatible with MX Linux ?
I use Astrill VPN which works well on MX Linux. It's a G.U.I. VPN.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:14 am
by handy
I too use PIA-VPN. It is great. Fantastic client GUI, easy to use & very reliable. Price is pretty good too. I prefer PIA to Air, after having used Air for some years in the past.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:20 am
by MikeKlemin
I daily VPN to my work servers via openvpn works great, no issues at all :-)
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:23 am
by richb
handy wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:14 am
I too use PIA-VPN. It is great. Fantastic client GUI, easy to use & very reliable. Price is pretty good too. I prefer PIA to Air, after having used Air for some years in the past.
I have it configured in Network Manager, and have been using it for over a year. I will have to check out the GUI. There is also a browser extension for Google Chrome.
EDIT: The GUI is a lot easier to set it up than in Network Manager., and a very nice notification icon showing when connected. When I signed up a year ago the GUI was not available. Looking at the change log, they update it quite regularly squashing bugs and adding features.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:07 am
by handy
@richb, I've mentioned it before... The PIA GUI won't install in Artix, as Artix does not use the standard Arch repos (though it does use Arch repos too). This is the problem that caused me to leave the "Arch" world & find another great distro that doesn't use systemd.
I could run PIA without the GUI in Artix. But to get all of the functions that the GUI provided was far more effort than I wanted to put in. I never thought that I could possibly trade pacman in, but there you go.
So here I've been for ~7 months or so now. :)
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 4:45 am
by mystic
Tried ProtonVPN and works well with MX. Their client is also open source !
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:59 am
by philotux
I have been using NordVPN for a while now. I use the Network Manager and their config (.ovpn) files. It seems to be working fine here on MX18. Unfortunately they don't have a gui for Linux. There are browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:11 am
by philotux
Maybe off-topic. (didn't want to start a new thread for it)
Are
https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ and
https://ipleak.net/ reliable means to check for DNS leak?
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:50 am
by Jerry3904
You're right, totally off topic. Start please a new thread, takes two seconds.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:54 am
by philotux
Jerry3904 wrote: Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:50 am
You're right, totally off topic. Start please a new thread, takes two seconds.
Alright, sorry about that! Please remove, if you see fit.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:45 pm
by Captain Brillo
@philotux:
nordVPN now has a client for linux, but it's not a GUI. I tried it but felt I have more control with manual methods.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:02 pm
by philotux
Thanks for the info, Captain Brillo! I'll look into it.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:27 pm
by Mauser
No leaks with Astrill VPN running in stealth mode.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:37 pm
by richb
A lot of information here.
https://thebestvpn.com/
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:14 pm
by Mauser
Yes. Pay close attention on the jurisdiction of those VPNs. All of those VPNs are in the 14 eyes. Not good because those governments keep the logs. Still good information but incomplete because there are so many more VPNs.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:51 pm
by Budlite
Newbie,
Need installation instructions for the PIA .run file
tnx
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:09 pm
by richb
Budlite wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:51 pm
Newbie,
Need installation instructions for the PIA .run file
tnx
I downloaded the Linux legacy version and ran this in a terminal in the download directory.
The legacy version is from October 2018 and not the latest but works fine in MX 18.
There are instructions on the PIA site Linux download page to install the stable version, that is the .run version.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:39 am
by Budlite
no luck:
demo@mx1:~/Downloads
$ sh pia-v81-installer-linux.sh
tar: installer_linux/deploy_files/nwjs/64/lib/libnw.so: Wrote only 9216 of 10240 bytes
tar: installer_linux/deploy_files/nwjs/64/lib/libnode.so: Cannot write: No space left on device
tar: installer_linux/deploy_files/nwjs/64/swiftshader: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:45 am
by richb
Looks like your partition is full. When installed it lands in /opt/piavpn/. which is in /, the root file system.
Also probably not significant but my version is pia-v82.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:50 am
by philotux
richb wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:45 am
Looks like your partition is full.
@Budlite
You could run:
to find out.
Re: vpn compatibility-ProtonVPN
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:12 pm
by Seeker
I see Proton VPN cli version in MX Test Repo. Does this mean it is "iffy"? Also, why do we not have the Proton app for Linux in our MX Pkg Installer? Can we safely download it from Proton website?
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 1:47 pm
by towwire
Mauser wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:14 pm
Yes. Pay close attention on the jurisdiction of those VPNs. All of those VPNs are in the 14 eyes. Not good because those governments keep the logs. Still good information but incomplete because there are so many more VPNs.
Your statement is not 100% correct.
There are Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, 14 Eyes – Explained here.
https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/
No matter who you do "business" with, means you "trust" what they say to you, but then are you using anything that leaks or undermines your privacy and security.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:34 pm
by Mauser
towwire wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 1:47 pm
Mauser wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:14 pm
Yes. Pay close attention on the jurisdiction of those VPNs. All of those VPNs are in the 14 eyes. Not good because those governments keep the logs. Still good information but incomplete because there are so many more VPNs.
Your statement is not 100% correct.
There are Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, 14 Eyes – Explained here.
https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/
No matter who you do "business" with, means you "trust" what they say to you, but then are you using anything that leaks or undermines your privacy and security.
Who's information are you referring to?
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:49 pm
by towwire
Yours. Not all are in 14 eyes and the governments may force them to keep logs or give up data without telling anyone. Like everything it is always subject change. Too many things are not known till years later after the fact.
My point is that to maintain your privacy and security you have to keep checking everything.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:35 pm
by az2020
towwire wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:49 pm
My point is that to maintain your privacy and security you have to keep checking everything.
I agree. I have Mullvad (which MX seems most favorable to: it's an app in the Live USB session. MX also makes it sysvinit compatible through the stable repro). Mullvad doesn't have a warrant canary. Their reasoning is that it's not necessary because they have no logs to warrant access to. That makes sense: why have a notice saying "there's no warrants?"
But, it only makes sense *today*. What if the CEO has a sudden compromising position a few months from now, and things change? Mullvad answers this canary question every two months. Why not just have the canary? ("Still no warrants -- and there should never be any, just like we've been saying since 930BC.") If they don't do that, then they keep answering the same question every two months. It starts to beg the question.
I got Mullvad to seed torrents. I'm rapidly deciding to use a "seedbox" too. I'd use Mullvad to access that service. Keep my eggs
out of one basket. I think Mullvad is trustworthy. I'm not trying to cast doubt. Maybe it's good they have the anti-canary position they do. It raises reasonable concerns applicable to any *stranger*. It made me think about the risks vs the cost of taking an extra step. (I mean, even if they/anyone(!) had a warrant canary, who's to say it's updated & truthful?). It makes you think.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:25 pm
by Real
Mullvad is not simply one guy or CEO, so worrying about some guy being compromised is absurd. Secondly it can use wireguard, one of the main reasons I use it. Their code is completely transparent and inspected regularly. I like the fact you can torrent from any of the vpn points without concern. Vpn's like Express are a total scam as is Nord. If you see it advertised daily on the lying-to-your-face-box/TV just know it's a scam and a lie.
IMO, any company can say they respect your privacy. But, they could just as easily hand data to someone else who doesn't. Akin to the look the other way/we had no knowledge lie. That I believe is a common practice. Like if I say "I won't lie, I swear!", but my business partners never made any such claim, and I never mention it. So it's easy peasy for junk like nord or express to say one thing but do another. (express throttles when you torrent and have a name with the word London in it while pretending to be all american-a real POS co.). Like apple and facebook and google blah blah blah.
I was using proton but their linux client was mia. Plus they would require you to use specific vpn points in order TO torrent. After trying to update the proton cmd line client in linux to the beta and hitting a wall, I said to hell with it and switched over to mullvad. Their free email is good but I'd never use their vpn again.
Funny how the govt wants you and yours to use no encryption or privacy whatsoever, but they hand each other encrypted phones and use only encrypted email.
When making calls is free for the entire planet this BS will stop. If the entire planet could see everything that bigtech does the same way bigtech sees us, only then will it be a fair field of play. Like when apple buys me every single new device and pays the entire bill for using it, THEN we can do bidness. Then they can monitor every keystroke. Be my guest. You payed for it not me. Excuse my ranting but it's just the truth.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 5:12 am
by richb
Moderator
@Real
Opinions should be posted in the Chat section. This topic is about VPN compatibility not extraneous opinions.
Re: vpn compatibility
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:14 pm
by MCreaves
I use privateinternetaccess.com on MX and it does fine.