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According to Techradar, there are 8 reasons to replace your VPN client with OpenVPN.
Sign up for a new VPN and it makes sense to use your provider's clients. They should work right away, with no setup hassles, and you'll get easy access to any bonus features the service offers: encrypted DNS, ad blocking, split tunnelling, whatever they might be.
But what if your VPN doesn't have any bonus features, or its clients are so feeble and underpowered that they can't deliver the power you need?
OpenVPN could be the answer. It's an ultra-configurable open source VPN client which works with just about any VPN provider that supports the OpenVPN protocol. It gives you new ways to automate, optimize, control and troubleshoot your connections, and you can use it alongside your existing client, or maybe replace it entirely – it's your call.
The package won't be for everyone, but experienced VPN users in particular could have a lot to gain. We've listed eight good reasons you might want to give OpenVPN a try.
That is if you'e not just running over SSH or IPsec already.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Monday January 08 2018, @05:11AM (12 children)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @05:43AM (2 children)
In fact, I don't know anything that works on anything, first time every time.
Technology is soul-sucking junk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @04:29PM (1 child)
A hammer works on a thumb, reliably, every time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @09:09PM
You SAY that, but when I aim my hammer at my thumb, I almost always miss and hit some annoying nail that's sticking up in a nearby board.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Monday January 08 2018, @06:13AM (6 children)
I haven't seen any similar problems with CentOS, Gentoo, Debian derivative (on multiple RPi devices).
In my experience, OpenVPN just works (except in China, behind the Great Firewall).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @06:36AM (4 children)
Debian Derivative - which ones? I use OpenVPN in Debian Stable and Linux Mint and it is as broken as fuck, specifically has trouble updating routing tables with VPN route so everything goes in the clear (in Mint it may have just been the DNS queries). Have a script to fix it but is a PITA.
Note this is trying to use for anon VPN so not as designed, but that appears to be what TFA is taking about anyway.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday January 08 2018, @12:59PM (3 children)
I use it in Kubuntu, and it works quite nicely. Cow-orkers have run into problems with DNS stuff (since systemd), but on the last installs I did, everything was flawless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @06:44PM
Is it possible that the cow-orkers [urbandictionary.com] are doing it wrong? Is that just a Hindu thing, or does that extend to vegan/PETA types as well?
I've found OpenVPN to be pretty easy to set up and use. But I don't do a lot of orking [urbandictionary.com]. Perhaps that's the issue?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)
OpenVPN on Ubuntu with NordVPN is rock solid. Price was good at $3 a month. Had to add a couple of lines to the ovpn file to fix a dns issue. Some systemd issues which were just frustrating.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @11:47AM
Original AC here - yes this was the same in Mint and I consider it to be broken. Grandma ain't going to be adding lines to no ovpn file.
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday January 09 2018, @01:52AM
Let me speculate why...
When OpenVPN misbehaves and leaks a few packets they are nicely recorded by NSA and... nothing... for now.
When similar thing happens in China, the authorities disconnect the whole building or a village and report the offending IP to the population. It conveniently happens during a Cheese equivalent of Monday Night Football. Said population takes baseball bats and resolves the issue.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday January 08 2018, @06:44PM
Your link seems to be broken. I've also had similar problems since I upgraded to the latest Linux Mint; with 17.3 it worked great.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @06:46PM
nonsensical fud! i use it everyday on gnu/linux and it works perfect every #$%^ time. if you read that post it's easy to see it's filled with novice linux users who don't understand networking or openvpn. has jack shit to do with linux vs windows, except that everything is dumbed down for windows users.