submitted 1 year ago by Stuka@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So I'm pretty new to this, but have a Linux system set as a torrent box / emby server. I'm running protonvpn cli with permanent killswitch and qbittorrent set to use the VPN tunnel.

I've been running it for about a month now, but just found out I had a leak early August and got a copyright notice from my ISP. I'm pretty sure this is related to a lock up and crash of the protonvpn gui client, which was shit. I haven't had any notices since, despite doing heavy downloading. I also did not have QBT configured to only use the VPN tunnel at that point.

My question is, is there anything else I can do to prevent leaks? It's got me a bit sketched.

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[-] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 6 points 1 year ago

What do you use as a torrenting client? Most popular ones give you the ability to choose a specific interface over which it will allow incoming/outgoing connections to other peers. Your ProtonVPN should have its own interface you can select from your client. That should make it much less likely for that to happen again if Proton crashes, since if Proton crashes, that network interface disconnects.