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Ask Soylent: How Best to Set Up a VPN?

posted by mrcoolbp on Monday April 14 2014, @05:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-VPN-are-belong-to-us dept.

Gaaark writes:

Hello fellow Soylentils. Colour me a nice Soylent Green Canadian who up until recently has only worried somewhat about security. I use linux (mostly Ubuntu) and in the past I have had time to work at config files and do google searches to solve my problems. Today i have far less time to do these things. My question is: can anyone (practically) hand me a good, easy, linux-friendly, and hopefully cheap VPN solution? Extra kudos to those with free options.

Canada seems to be heading in the direction of the United States and I am beginning to worry that my internet is being taken from me. Can anyone come up with a solution to keep my internetting private and my downloads from being pried into? (I've heard VPN is the way to go, but searching for solutions leaves me wondering if I'm getting scammed in the process.)

Thanks in advance for the help.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by spxero on Monday April 14 2014, @08:11PM

    by spxero (3061) on Monday April 14 2014, @08:11PM (#31512)

    I have found the opposite. Having the IP address is easier to create static firewall rules. The domain name is easier to remember, but if they add IPs you have to add the same to your firewall (if you set it up to block all but VPN traffic).

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 15 2014, @02:11AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday April 15 2014, @02:11AM (#31626) Homepage Journal
    On the other hand, it's easy enough to script an ifup script along the lines of "what IP address is am I VPNing through? do me a favor and DROP ipv4 on eth0 aside from that address" or just scrape their list of IPs and whitelist them all. Having more IPs is a good thing; less blocking and it's cheaper for your vpn service which is theoretically cheaper for you.
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