Re: Tor over VPN

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 12 juin 2019 04:26:54 GMT+02:00, address@hidden a écrit :
>I too wish to get an answer to this so it would be easy for somebody 
>non-technical to wrap their head around it. I'm currently doing
>open-vpn 
>as root from the desktop and then running tor after it and configuring 
>icecat afterwards to connect to TOR
>
>On 11.06.2019 22:27, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
>> Hello Guix!
>> 
>> 1) How to use tor over vpn? That is, my system should connect to tor 
>> network via
>> vpn.
>> 2) Should I enable both tor-service-type and openvpn-client-service?
>> 3) Do tor and vpn operate on same level as per OSI model?
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> RG.

I think if you activate both services, it will work. Openvpn creates a new 
virtual network device that gets its own ip and network configuration. It's 
configured to go through your actual device via routes. Tor will simply try to 
communicate with another server on the internet. If openvpn has configured your 
computer to have a default route through the vpn, then tor connection will have 
no choice but to go through the vpn. Does it make sense?

You can check what your routes are with "ip r".