Proton VPN on Linux looks very different from Windows. How do you select one of their P2P options for faster torrenting? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Pretty much what the title says. I noticed that ProtonVPN Linux has an EXTREMELY limited interface compared to their program on Windows. I also do not appear to have the option to bind qBittorrent to ProtonVPN the same way that I did with MullvadVPN. Has anybody experienced ProtonVPN on Linux and successfully used it for torrenting? It's nowhere near as simple as on Windows, from the looks of it.

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[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 22 points 11 months ago

DO NOT USE IPV6

Seriously, figure out how to configure it to NEVER use IPv6, make it so it doesnt default fail back from IPv4 to IPv6 for whatever reason!

ISPs are generally still able to serve cease and desist notices if you torrent via IPv6, it usually DNS leaks all over the place.

Use both of these sites to test and make sure your VPN configuration will not leak.

https://ipleak.net/

https://dnsleaktest.com/

[-] Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

I know very little about networking unfortunately...I do not even think my ISP offers IPV6, but I could just be completely wrong. I went to both of those sites, and it showed me as across the world, where I had selected with ProtonVPN. There were no settings in there at all to change anything. ProtonVPN on Linux is literally just a box with a list of countries that you click on. So much weaker than Mullvad and ProtonVPN on Windows.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Uh ok... well if you had ProtonVPN on, selected an endpoint and both those websites showed that your IP is indicated as coming from the selected endpoint, in another country, that is good!

Unfortunately that doesnt tell us all that you would need to know though.

I have to go to sleep, but if you would like send me a screenshot of what both those sites say when ProtonVPN is on, I could probably tell you if you are good to go, or if you need to dive into ProtonVPN settings.

God help us both if the problem isnt the ProtonVPN config and somehow something with your linux config is fucky, lol.

EDIT: I mean pm me the screenshot, not post them here lol.

Also... yeah I used to use ProtonVPN, switched to linux and dear fucking god the non CLI version was so buggy and broken I switched to i think another VPN provider that actually had a working GUI on a debian based linux build, then to a different one that was CLI only, then more or less gave up amd went with Mozilla because at least the fucking GUI worked.