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amussey / FreeNAS-Transmission-OpenVPN

These scripts will configure Transmission (the BitTorrent client) to launch and run only through OpenVPN. They are designed to be run on top of the Transmission jail for FreeNAS.
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Auto-start + kill-switch #10

Closed acollien closed 8 years ago

acollien commented 8 years ago

Can you include the step for the following in your readMe please:

  1. Auto-start openvpn on jail/plugin start (unless that's already the case? the script and guide are ambiguous)
  2. Kill-switch setup (so transmission loses network connection if open vpn drops)
  3. Steps to change the openvpn server country
  4. Is there a way to test that the vpn is working?

Thanks so much.

amussey commented 8 years ago

Hi @acollien, I'll update the README in a bit, but to answer your questions:

  1. Auto start: Once the VPN is set up through the Makefile, everything should auto-start when you boot FreeNAS.
  2. Kill Switch: While a little bit primitive (relies on OpenVPN doing it's job), a kill switch is built in. In run.sh.template, OpenVPN is configured to call stop_transmission.sh when the VPN connection is lost (--down).
  3. Changing Country: This will depend on which OpenVPN configuration file you use. In the step: mv Sweden.ovpn openvpn.conf, you can change the country by selecting another ovpn file. You can list the available files/countries by running the command ls *.ovpn.
  4. Testing: The easiest way is to use this torrent from TorGuard to check the IP address your torrents are connecting from: https://torguard.net/checkmytorrentipaddress.php Compare this against your local machine's IP: http://www.myipaddress.com/show-my-ip-address/

Let me know if you have any more issues!

amussey commented 8 years ago

Added the answers to some of these questions into the README.md in commit 3ed8f53.