[ale] VPN recommendations?

[Arie vW]

Ah, yes. The tunneling issue makes sense, thank you!
Arie

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 12:13 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 2018-03-20 08:55, Arie vW wrote:
> > Not to hijack the thread, but I recently began toying with the idea of
> > purchasing Mullvad as an external VPN. I currently have an OpenVPN Server
> > running on my server at home which I use to access my home network from
> > time to time (mainly to stream my Plex library).
> > Now forgive my ignorance, and if I need to read up on a topic please
> don't
> > hesitate to point me in that direction; but is it possible to run my own
> > OpenVPN server next to a Mullvad VPN? Is it just a matter of having both
> > VPN's config files in /etc/openvpn and then choosing which instance to
> > launch? I probably would not attempt to run them in tandem, although if I
> > were to connect to my home server via my VPN then try and open Mullvad
> > would it cause issues?
> >
> >>From https://mullvad.net/en/guides/linux-openvpn-installation/:
> > 3. copy mullvad_ca.crt, mullvad_crl.pem, mullvad_xx.conf and
> > mullvad_userpass.txt  to /etc/openvpn/  (use sudo)
> > Cheers,
> > Arie
>
> You can have as many profiles as you want on any particular device
> (assuming the same client software is used, e.g. openvpn, etc.) and you
> can have more than one client software as well (I have two on my phone,
> one for work and one for home) though they may or may not run together
> (see below).  Just choose the one you want to use at that time and go.
>
> Running one and then running the other will likely cause you extreme
> headaches if you weren't thinking about that when setting up the
> profiles.  You have to decide what each profile is intended to do,
> whether it's a partial or full tunnel, and how you want traffic routed.
>
> In an extreme example:  if you had set up both as full tunnels started
> them both (since your personal VPN is accessible from the Internet at
> large) you would probably end up using a VPN over a VPN (tunnel inside a
> tunnel) and everything would be super slow but working.
>
> If they were partial tunnels things might still work though it depends
> on the device and whether more than one VPN can operate.  My phone
> refuses to start two VPNs, a laptop might not complain so much.
>
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