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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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I had someone help me set something similar up but I don't remember the exact details. Something like making the qBit user unable to use any interface but the TUN.
Yeah qbitorrent has this in their settings iirc.
Do ifconfig before VPN, then after. Identify what your VPN connection is (likely TUN0). Then you tell qbitorrent to ONLY use the VPN one.
That way if you suddenly lose VPN service it won't fall back to your actual IP. (This is how the guy that hacked ubiquity got caught).
I know about that setting, but this was different. It relies on Linux permissions. Like you have a dedicated 'user' for running qBit, and that user has no privileges for any network interface other than the VPN.
Sounds like network namespaces.
Yeah that rings a bell. Weirdly I woke up this morning to an abuse complaint from my hosting provider after years of no issues.
Gluetun
Using gluetun to connect my containers to Mullvad I'm getting 60+% of my bare network speeds.
Another option that doesn't achieve that performance is torproxy which can achieve a similar result.
I don't think that'll be a problem. I got a good CPU. The connection will is slowing me down
Could be the VPN provider or the NAS (cpu)
I'm getting 60+% of my bare network speeds.
Check if your CPU usage is at 100%, its probably too much for your CPU just like mine. Getting 180-200 Mbps using gluetun and 320 without a VPN
But gluetun is the way 😉
I agree gluetun is de way 😂 unfortunately my CPU is nowhere near 100%
I can max out with qbit and ptotonvpn
Using gluetun to connect my containers to Mullvad I'm getting 60+% of my bare network speeds.
Another option that doesn't achieve that performance is torproxy which can achieve a similar result.
The Truecharts version of Qbittorrent has gluetun baked in as an option already. Initial configuration can be a bit of a pain depending on your VPN provider, but it seems to work beautifully once set up.
Truenas scale is just Debian isn't it? You shouldn't have any trouble with it, then. Though if you're using other network stuff like tailscale I would determine how the two are going to work together.
Personally I run everything under docker (not on truenas scale though) and I recently switched to gluetun and it worked perfectly the first time.
Truenas scale uses kubernets. Tailscale is more like a tunnel to my home servers so I can access the ports therefore the apps
Wait for the next month release of scale, it very surprisingly comes with jails. You install a Linux distro in a jail then run gluetun+qbit via docker