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?
Docker with a gluetun container. This container’s only role is to connect to my VPN provider. Any traffic I want through the VPN is set to use that container as its network. If the VPN goes down, gluetun loses connection, any container attached to gluetun can no longer access the internet.
I use a qbittorent docker container for my torrent client but you can attach whatever client you’re comfortable with, as well as any other container you prefer be on a VPN.
While qbittorent has a built in kill switch, this works for everything. No VPN means no connection, period.
That’s exactly what I have set up too. I also have gluetun tied to my Prowlarr and NZBget containers. I know Prowlarr tied to VPN may be overkill but it doesn’t hurt anything so why not?
Haha, same. Stuck Prowlarr on there because why not? That’s the beauty of this setup. It takes no effort after gluetun is set, so no reason not to just attach anything even remotely questionable.
As long as the tracker doesn’t have anything against VPNs doesn’t hurt.
Nowadays not sure 🤔 but some didn’t allow VPN access on the tracker webpage and at the end except in some cases that is what Prowlarr does.
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Docker with a gluetun container. This container’s only role is to connect to my VPN provider. Any traffic I want through the VPN is set to use that container as its network. If the VPN goes down, gluetun loses connection, any container attached to gluetun can no longer access the internet.
I use a qbittorent docker container for my torrent client but you can attach whatever client you’re comfortable with, as well as any other container you prefer be on a VPN.
While qbittorent has a built in kill switch, this works for everything. No VPN means no connection, period.
That’s exactly what I have set up too. I also have gluetun tied to my Prowlarr and NZBget containers. I know Prowlarr tied to VPN may be overkill but it doesn’t hurt anything so why not?
Haha, same. Stuck Prowlarr on there because why not? That’s the beauty of this setup. It takes no effort after gluetun is set, so no reason not to just attach anything even remotely questionable.
As long as the tracker doesn’t have anything against VPNs doesn’t hurt. Nowadays not sure 🤔 but some didn’t allow VPN access on the tracker webpage and at the end except in some cases that is what Prowlarr does.
I have the same setting because some tracker only let you connect with one IP address. So I have Prowlarr and Transmission both connected via gluetun.