On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 23:55 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 14:53 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > > On 01/27/2017 02:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I have a subscription to a commercial VPN provider and would like to > > > configure certain applications to always use VPN connections as far as > > > the provider while everything else goes through as normal. Note that > > > this needs to work for arbitrary remote sites so the VPN is basically > > > acting as a proxy rather than me controlling both ends of the > > > connection, so e.g. an SSH tunnel won't do it. > > > > > > I looked into this a while ago and there are several suggestions on the > > > Web as to how to do this on Linux, but those I tried didn't work for > > > me. At least one idea seemed to involve setting up an alternate network > > > name space with its own routing, but it's been a while and I'm afraid I > > > didn't take note of the details. > > > > Hi Patrick, > > > > Stéphane Graber of Ubuntu's LXC/D container world has done several > > things with VPN from passing the vpn to a container where the container > > sees it as just another eth device, to managing his sundry VPN > > connections via namespacing. > > > > His words: > > > > """ > > The code is available at: git clone > > git://github.com/stgraber/vpn-container. Then it’s as simple as: > > ./start-vpn VPN-NAME CONFIG > > """ > > > > The approach is discussed at https://www.stgraber.org/category/lxc/. > > Search for VPN in containers for the specific section. > > Thanks. The versions I'd seen before didn't involve containers but I'll > take a look. Decided to try this, but there's a dependency on something called uidmap which doesn't seem to exist for Fedora (according to both dnf search and Google). Other ideas are welcome. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
