SSH Tunnel

Using AirVPN with SSH Tunnel

A secure shell (SSH) tunnel consists of an encrypted tunnel created through a SSH protocol connection. With the described setup this page, you can tunnel OpenVPN over SSH.

Advantages:

OpenVPN typical fingerprint can not be detected anymore. Useful if you live in a country which tries to disrupt OpenVPN connections when detected.
Contrarily to a "classic" SSH tunnel, there's no need to configure each application in order to have it tunneled.

Disadvantages:

Performance hit

With Eddie, our software

Select AirVPN menu -> Preferences -> Protocols. Select one of the SSH Tunnel options. Click Save.

Without our software: Android

Look at this guide.

Without our software: Windows, Linux, macOS

Installation / Configuration

Download and install OpenVPN from here.
Login on this site. Enter in Config Generator.
Click on your favourite option (if you are in doubt, just choose 443 UDP).
Click "Advanced" to view SSH options.
Remember to choose your operating-system.
Click on "Generate" and download the files.

Usage

With Windows

Under Windows, SSH Tunnel are done with PuTTY, an open-source software released under MIT license, written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham. It's embedded in the files generated by our OpenVPN Configuration Generator.

From a command prompt (Administrator access NOT required):
```
"AirVPN <..> - SSH <..>.bat"
```
From another a command prompt (as Administrator):
```
openvpn "AirVPN <..> - SSH <..>.ovpn"
```

With Linux

From command line interface (root NOT required):
```
chmod +x *.sh
    "AirVPN <..> - SSH <..>.sh"
```
From another command line interface (as root):
```
openvpn "AirVPN <..> - SSH <..>.ovpn"
```

With OS X

From command line interface (root NOT required):
```
chmod +x *.sh
    "AirVPN <..> - SSH <..>.sh"
```
From another command line interface (as root):
```
./openvpn "AirVPN <..> - SSH <..>.ovpn"
```

SSH connections need to store never met before keys to the list of known hosts (Unix/Linux/*BSD) or to the registry (Windows). You will be prompted to accept this action. Answer 'y' to store the key (necessary only the first time you connect to a server)

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