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Hello! As part of progressive upgrading of our servers and decommissioning of older hardware, we inform you that the Virginis (Switzerland) server will cease operations today, 2023-10-04. The infrastructure in Europe gets on upgrading thanks to the addition of new servers and 10 Gbit/s lines, as well as the improvement of current lines and hardware. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! It's a security feature. The GUI does not run with root privileges and any event based script or software will not be automatically run as root, so your attack surface is not enlarged. It's your own responsibility, as a system administrator, to decide whether a script or software run by Eddie GUI (or any other software running without root privileges) must gain root privileges or not. Kind regards

The script was meant to be used with the framework the scripts in that wiki page established. Those scripts set up alias addresses for the VPN interface so that they appear to never change. I could probably expand the vpn_gateway_route script to incorporate that. Then I could include all of this stuff in that page. But I won't be able to do this for a few hours. The alternative would be to add stuff to the squid script that detects the addresses to use first. At this moment this does not appeal to me. Maybe you want to give it a try? The code at the start of the vpn_gateway_route script does this. For now how about just "show" the VPN gateway when you want to browse via the VPN. And then "hide" it when you are done? It says that squid is running because it is running. When installed it probably set up a daemon that runs at boot. In Debian I do this after I install squid: sudo ps -ef | grep squid - # takes 30 seconds sudo systemctl stop squid sudo ps -ef | grep squid - sudo systemctl disable squid After that the daemon will not be running and won't start at boot. I don't know if that will work in your distro. For firefox network settings this looks about right: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/connection-settings-firefox You might want a separate profile for using squid. This looks good: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles

The RTNETLINK messages are because the script removes anything left over from a previous run first. Expected on first run. Those scripts expect your user ID to be able to "sudo" without a prompt. In Debian you can set this up by running the following as root: echo "user_name ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/allow_user_name chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/allow_user_name Replace "user_name" with the user ID. Use "man sudo.conf" and poke around in /etc to see where the config files for sudo are. You may have to modify that. Some people may feel that is too broad. Ubuntu does this by default. Or used to anyway. I have an LD_PRELOAD script that I use to force things to bind: https://github.com/tool-maker/forceIP But for a browser you can run squid bound to the VPN interface and then have the browser use squid as an HTTP proxy. There is an example script for running squid this way at the end of this: https://github.com/tool-maker/VPN_just_for_torrents/wiki/Running-OpenVPN-on-Linux-without-VPN-as-Default-Gateway

Hello! If your Ubuntu computer directly connects to the VPN you don't need any additional rule on the router. Error 111 (connection refused) hints to packets actively rejected by your system with a reset, so it is likely that the packets reach your computer indeed. Please make sure that the listening programs are really running and listening to the correct ports. Also make sure that such programs do not bind to the physical network interface, if a bind option is available in the settings. Last but not least, as far as it pertains to the torrent software, please re-check its configuration against our guide here: https://airvpn.org/faq/p2p/ If the problem persists, we strongly recommend that you open a ticket as well. Kind regards