I want to use protonvpn for torrenting on linux but I don’t know how to do it.
Basically, just connect to a P2P Server, open your torrent client and start.
There’s no specifics you need to watch out for for ProtonVPN. Any setup guide works.
Install the proton VPN CLI and open a new terminal window. Type sudo protonvpn c --p2p. This will connect to the fastest P2P server that can be found.
Open the torrent client of your choice, I recommend Qbittorrent, and go into the settings. Go into advanced settings and set the network adapter to that of the VPN. It might be called proton or Tunnel or something along those lines. This means that if the VPN is disconnected, no p2p traffic is transferred on your network.
It depends on your subscription level too. You’ll want access to the p2p servers. You can follow this guide to install and configure the ProtonVPN CLI, but if you’re setup you’ll basically want to use protonvpn c --p2p
You can configure the ProtonVPN kill switch or bind your torrent app to the VPN tunnel device so that it’ll disconnect if you lose your VPN connection.
You can just use OpenVPN, available on all distros.
Then, download the *.ovpn files from ProtonVPN, load them into a OpenVPN connection, enter your credentials, and Voila! You have VPN.
Ugh, I was going to say “hopefully not”, to “is there a guide for linux on how to use protonvpn for torrenting”, except people have already answered…
How do you image a Tor relay handling 100s - and then 1000s, if and when more would do it - of constantly open connections, while downloading a torrent; not too well, right.
If there’s ONE THING that we shouldn’t do, that’s to be using Tor for torrenting… At least out of courtesy for the rest of Internet users, heh. xD
Careful, the Linux client can sometimes leak ipv6. More info in this post.
It is simple to test and address. You basically turn of ipv6, then turn it back on when you are done.
This is a sketchy ass question lol
Use secure core servers.
Even the newly released protonvpn-cli-ng leaks ipv6.
Why? ProtonVPN has P2P servers dedicated for this use.
Its not sketchier than Proton having the same question on its website. How to torrent safely with a VPN | Proton VPN
yes, this is my experience on 3 pcs running Ubuntu 18.04 and 19.10. Protonvpn acknowledge this in the thread I link to.
It is easy to switch off ipv6, permanently or temporarily, but it took me a long time to discover this leak. Especially via the torrent client.
see here:
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-disable-ipv6-address-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux
I just tested my protonvpn p2p conection with the test-ipv6 website and it looks like proton fixed the ipv6 leak. Or maybe the leak only happens with the normal protonvpn connection.
I have leaks on the p2p connection, both in the browser and the torrent client (which is the important thing here). Try the test
http://ipmagnet.services.cbcdn.com
which opens a torrent connection in your client and then reports what it sees.
Nope its only showing my ipv4 and nothing else. Maybe update and restart your protonvpn client?