Wait. So I am unclear how this leak works. Are you saying that this leak works by having a program bind to the physical interface and start communicating before the VPN daemon starts? So, the leak is not present after the daemon runs? How would this work with server switching, since the daemon is al…

The way I am describing is VPN use via Wireguard set up via the terminal. To answer your question, there is no program as such nor a GUI VPN app in how and what I mean. Hold tight, I am writing up a guide on what I mean and will share the info soon for anyone to understand and learn the best way to…

I’m writing up a guide. Will share it soon and it should answer your question.

Here is a new post I just made that should answer your question. [image] How to best set up & use a VPN with WireGuard on desktop Linux booksCommunity Wiki If you for whatever reason do not trust your VPN apps’ GUI to enable the kill-switch and have it work or…

For the people using Wireguard, how do you make port forwarding convenient on this setup? I use the GTK app, and ProtonVPN switching your forwarded port every time you connect made me resort to a script + systemd service that monitors changes to the /run/user/1000/Proton/VPN/forwarded_port file, ope…

[image] simony: connections do not seem to be made automatically, It should. There must be something hindering it if its not working but it should not happen. Please try again and reboot your system too. [image] simony: Do you create config files for various servers to have some options? …

I see! I’ll try to follow your wiki post later and see if there’s an easy way of automatically keeping a forwarded port open with all the other convenient stuff I mentioned whenever I connect to a Proton P2P server.

I’m surprised that ProtonVPN continues to be recommended. Back in February I made a post on reddit seeking help because the killswitch for macos (silicone) did not work on computer boot and also, even more importantly, that the IP would leak every time you switched network. They banned me from their…

[image] Overall-Bet3743: (their logic is that technically you are disconnecting from the IP and then connecting to another so it’s not an IP leak, what a joke!). That is not a joke. That’s correct because a leak would only occur/be called a leak if your IP between re-connections becomes known…

a leak would only occur/be called a leak if your IP between re-connections becomes known to your ISP I’m not sure what you mean by ‘your IP being known to your ISP’, my ISP always knows what my IP is, they are the provider of it after all. In any case, my real IP does become known to any server t…

Sorry, I mispoke. Was thinking a little differently in my head. If your real IP provided by your ISP (dynamic or not) is not known by any software/tool/website between reconnections, there is no leak. If not, there is leak. [image] Overall-Bet3743: So if you are ever getting IP blocked and swi…

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Yes, sorry for barging in on this thread, it just reminded me of the MacOs issue. I made a thread for it here : Remove ProtonVPN

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