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Honestly, for your use case, you should just get a older cell phone. Put lineage OS on it, or calyxos.. share your VPN over hotspot, these are the only two ROMs that I'm aware of that allow you to do that. This has the benefit that the VPN traffic looks just like for traffic from the phone, and you don't have to do any gymnastics to modify the TTL, or the operating system signature of the traffic.
Boom, travel router. Very portable, has a built-in battery etc etc etc etc etc
I like GLI-net, they are great, they have great hardware. If you want to buy it I endorse it. If you're paranoid flash your own firmware. If you use an end-to-end VPN from your device it doesn't matter what your mobile router uses. However the killer feature here, I think is better supplied by an older phone running the ROMs I mentioned above. It's just more portable. And you have a backup phone when you're traveling
LineageOS implementation of this is poorly done and will leak data outside of your VPN tunnel.
https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app/issues/4016#issuecomment-2422616515
True, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Sharing VPN from a phone over a hotspot, means all of that traffic looks like it's coming from the phone. Admittedly if the VPN dies, the routing will bypass it. But the benefit here is immense, if you use visible, you have unlimited data from the phone, but very slow data on tethering. Sharing the VPN from the phone, gives you unlimited data on the hotspot. That's a pretty good trade-off
No offence but that's terrible logic.
There is no point in using a vpn if you don't care if your data leaks outside the tunnel.
It would be much better to just use a free VPN, like proton, on all devices instead and then just use the regular hotspot functionality.
Either you didn't read the github comments or dont understand how vpns work.
If the VPN over hotspot function leaks data outside the tunnel, then your phones data is going to be revealed in the clear.
And yet even with that pitfall there is a valid benefit of using a shared VPN over the hotspot. Specifically making your data look like it's coming from the phone so it isn't throttled by the carrier as tethered data. The failure scenario being the data goes slower.
I recognize the problems you list as valid, and yet there is still a beneficial tradeoff decision to be made.
No need to insult me, I both read the GitHub and understand how VPNs work.
Sorry my bad, I should of responded in a more professional tone.
Yeah I totally agree there is a valid reason to have the function but its all moot if the function doesn't work correctly.
Even if it only works sometimes, there is still a use case with a benefit. I.e. speed throttling on tethering