A good VPN (minimum requirements)

[Menard]

Hello

Stop me if I am wrong but ....
There is no open source software for VPN on Linux that provide a kill switch, and compatible with VPN known companies (?)

so that question is solved : install Windows

nb : I just want to have the right to use as anybody else, a personal account on FB and T, even after having made an enormous criminal mistake : "violate our community standards" one time and so i am bullyied by algoritmes for everything for years and even pictures published in 2017 because they cannot understand humour and 2nd degree

[Moonstone Man]

Hello

Stop me if I am wrong but ....
There is no open source software for VPN on Linux that provide a kill switch, and compatible with VPN known companies (?)

You are absolutely wrong on all of it.

[Menard]

You are absolutely wrong on all of it.

If the solution you are thinking about, needs to be a geek to be used, it violates the rules of our community

[JoeFootball]

There is no open source software for VPN on Linux that provide a kill switch, and compatible with VPN known companies (?)

For the rare occasion where I need a VPN, I use ProtonVPN, which is open source, runs on Linux (among others), and has a kill switch option. I'm sure there are others out there.

so that question is solved : install Windows

Best of luck to you.

[Menard]

For the rare occasion where I need a VPN, I use ProtonVPN, which is open source, runs on Linux (among others), and has a kill switch option. I'm sure there are others out there.

OK I see this in fact on their documentation, they have a command line tool for Linux ...

"The ProtonVPN Linux app is currently officially supported on the following distros:

Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS)
Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS)
Fedora 33"


Notice that I wonder why openvpn has not added a killswitch feature because i tried it for nothing with Trustzone in free account ... Hey Linux community, If no killswitch on an application let it outside of your distro, idem for Wireguard ... I wonder

[Menard]

For the rare occasion where I need a VPN, I use ProtonVPN, which is open source, runs on Linux (among others), and has a kill switch option. I'm sure there are others out there.

Proton VPN, it works, I test it for free and I succeded to install their application for Linux, it seems to be serious, but I face an issue on my non admin account, it is a bug on the command -s (status) which allows to know if it is connected and if killswitch is on, the DL bandwith is reduced on the server I ve chosen (NL 5) to 17 instead of 95 but UL is quite good 4.5 it is in TCP

[MartyMint]

There is no open source software for VPN on Linux that provide a kill switch, and compatible with VPN known companies (?)

I don't understand what you're asking for....a clickey-clickey desktop button to toggle your VPN service?

[JoeFootball]

There is no open source software for VPN on Linux that provide a kill switch, and compatible with VPN known companies (?)

I don't understand what you're asking for....a clickey-clickey desktop button to toggle your VPN service?

It's my understanding that a VPN kill switch is, if the connection to the VPN server is terminated for whatever reason, all network traffic is automatically blocked, thus preventing any I/O to go unknowingly unencrypted.

[MartyMint]

There is no open source software for VPN on Linux that provide a kill switch, and compatible with VPN known companies (?)

I don't understand what you're asking for....a clickey-clickey desktop button to toggle your VPN service?

It's my understanding that a VPN kill switch is, if the connection to the VPN server is terminated for whatever reason, all network traffic is automatically blocked, thus preventing any I/O to go unknowingly unencrypted.

Okay. I have ExpressVPN on my phone and that feature is set to on.
On my computer it isn't, unless there's a switch, but I haven't gotten that deeply into the manual.

[Menard]

I don't understand what you're asking for....a clickey-clickey desktop button to toggle your VPN service?

In my knowings about VPNs that work on OS, to get a killswitch, means to install an application other than openvpn, or in addition to openvpn, so if the VPN gives no application for Linux then probably it has not a kill switch feature ... but an exception is Wireguard but it seemed to me difficult with it, a long tutorial exists on the forums to set a killswitch with wireguard, it seems to be not automatic

[MartyMint]

FWIW, in my 2 years with ExpressVPN, I've never had it go down.

[MartyMint]

I believe the killswitch defaults to off, but you can toggle it with:
expressvpn preferences set network_lock off


[Menard]

OK but in fact I wasn't really thinking to the most used and most expensive ones ...
Anyway i tested this one : protonvpn and it seems to work, I cannot connect to it without sudo rights but I suppose it is like this for all, but they never tell it