[tor-talk] Tor disconnects and must be restarted while using OpenVPN

2013-07-28 Thread ef2k
Hi, I'm trying to connect to an OpenVPN server for my general internet traffic but keep Tor for DNS lookups and as a SOCKS5 proxy for a few applications. I connect to my OpenVPN server and everything works as expected, but after 30-40 seconds (seems to depend on number of requests to Tor?), a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor transparent proxying over OpenVPN

2013-06-16 Thread ef2k
> If you run a VPN client and Tor client on the same machine, you will > connect to the Tor network through the VPN. I should have mentioned that > in my initial reply. Could you take a look at my iptables rules ? I don't have much knowledge of firewalls and I am not good at writing them myself, so

Re: [tor-talk] Tor transparent proxying over OpenVPN

2013-06-16 Thread ef2k
> e...@tormail.org: >> I am worried about this. It's why I don't want to rely on obfuscated >> bridges to hide my Tor usage, as they're not private and one day I could >> get flagged as using Tor if the ISP/military/police is monitoring >> connections to the bridge that I'm using at the time. >> VP

Re: [tor-talk] Tor transparent proxying over OpenVPN

2013-06-16 Thread ef2k
? > > If obfuscated bridges don't last very long, it's very likely that ef2k's > ISP will quickly determine that he's using Tor, even if it can't > consistently block Tor use. > > If ef2k were using a VPN service, on the other hand, his ISP would need > to

[tor-talk] Tor transparent proxying over OpenVPN

2013-06-15 Thread ef2k
Is it possible to do Tor transparent proxying over OpenVPN i.e. My connection -> OpenVPN -> Tor ? The purpose of this would be to stop the ISP from seeing that Tor is being used. At the moment I'm using the rules from https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy By modifying t