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Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm a long-time Transmission user but I just learned that VPN killswitches are a thing (how did it take me so long!?). I would like to try another client which has this feature in case I forget to launch my VPN client before opening Transmission. Does anybody have any recommendations? Deluge? QBittorrent? Or any others?

UPDATE: Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I decided to give qbittorrent a try and have been enjoying it so far.

I followed these steps to bind it to my VPN from on Linux:

  1. Pause torrents
  2. Connect VPN
  3. Open qBittorrent. Go to Preferences, and then Advanced tab
  4. Change network interface to tun0. If unsure, disconnect VPN and restart qBittorrent then repeat step 1 to see which interface appears.
  5. Restart qBittorrent
  6. Test it out on the official kubuntu torrent or your favourite distro from LinuxTracker.org. Turn your VPN on and off while verifying whether it pauses and resumes downloading.
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adding to the qbittorrent recommendations: qb has Socks5 support and and supports binding traffic to a specific interface. It doesn't get much better than this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it can get better :P https://lemmy.world/comment/5269089

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean... That essentially does the same thing but it's much more complicated than just clicking a button in the qb GUI...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but enforcing the restriction at the systemd level will be safer. Frankly I like Transmission.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough.