mozilla-vpn-client VS openvpn3-linux

The summary seems to ignore upstream.

They did infact

removed polkit : https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/pull/70...

refactor auth using D-Bus: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/pull/71...

These are why author's PR was dropped.

git clone https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client.git cd mozilla-vpn-client git submodule update --init

RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable

So I intentionally decided not to have IPv4 connectivity system wide to catch apps with issues in IPv6 only environment and then carefully evaluate issues and report them to authors: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/issues/... https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4121

Dual stack setups tend to hide IPv6 implementation issues and may create illusion that app is IPv6 compatible but in reality it's not.

Clearly my setup is too hostile for home users but as developer I enjoy it a lot.

Mozilla VPN is still in "beta testing" mode, and while everyone works out issues with clients, subscriptions, and all the other fun, it's better to limit the scope of a test. Mozilla VPN will roll out into more countries over time, and if yo want to know when, there's a "join the waitlist"-button on https://vpn.mozilla.org/.

A CLI is available - never used it in a headless environment yet. Hope that helps :) https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/blob/main/docs/Command-line-interface.md

No. The Firefox Private Network browser extension offers set and forget network protection while you shop, bank, and browse in Firefox. It’s lightweight and simple. A VPN is a more robust software application that allows location switching. It’s a separate app you install to secure everything on your device that connects to the internet, including all browsers, social media apps, and banking apps. Learn more if you’re interested in our VPN.

Having said that, people can only track you if you make connections to their domains. If you don't even want the owner of a site you visit directly to know you visit it, use Mozilla VPN (if available in your country) or a slower free alternative like Tor or VPN Gate.

Here is a link to the GitHub thread https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux/issues/171

Its open source, you can build it yourself if there is no package https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux

The git repository is the main source of information, and I tag all the releases with signed tags, where the tag message is the most important details for the release: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux/releases/tag/v18_beta

If you don't want to add the lines to your profile, it is possible to use a different approach as well. That will require more hacking, and for script purposes I suggest using Python as OpenVPN 3 Linux ships with its own Python module (but you may use any programing/scripting language with D-Bus bindings to do the same). An example script starting a new session with possibility to provide user credentials can be found here: src/tests/python/start-tunnel2.py and to lookup the D-Bus path required for the configuration profile from a configuration name, have a look at this example: src/tests/python/configmgr-lookup-configname.py

You're on the wrong OS. The OpenVPN 3 Linux client actually gives you the ability to pre-install VPN config profiles and allow non-privileged users to start VPN sessions without having access to the content of the profile, though the config-acl feature.

On Linux you can facilitate the OpenVPN 3 Linux client, which exposes all you need via a D-Bus API directly - which should be available via node.js.

https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux/blob/master/src/python/openvpn3-as#L125

There's not much more docs than what's already in the openvpn2 and openvpn3-autoload Python scripts. Plus the various Python test scripts; in particular have a look at configimport.py and start-tunnel2.py. All of them hopefully got a reasonable amount of comments which makes sense.