PrivateInternetAccess - Tunneling entire network

[oxbird]

Hi,

I have a small network of virtualbox VMs on my PC that I’d like to tunnel trough PIA all at once.

But I don’t really see any drop-in solution on the internet.

One option would be to install AlpineLinux in a VM, and use OpenVPN and plain IPTables to tunnel that network, but there should be a better option, right?

So, anyone have any experience with maybe ipFire in that configuration? I honestly don’t know what should I use.

P.S
I’d like this thing to be as easy to setup and consistent between different hosts as possible (I will probably run similar VM for tunneling on a few other hosts, and I don’t want to troubleshoot every time I have to install this thing).

What specifically are you trying to access from your home network? You could just do dynamic SSH tunnel.

In my older post I had a small guide for this.

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Do you know of any good guides for that? I’ve used Linux for years but I’m a total noob at command line stuff and have no clue how any of that works. Telling someone to ‘just do X’ may seem easy, but a little more info would be infinitely more helpful to the uninitiated.

It’s kind of like telling someone “Oh, just do nomodeset” without explaining wheret to put it or how to update grub afterwards. I still haven’t seen a clear and concise guide for that. Glad I haven’t actually needed it!

Well for regular SSH tunnel you just do something like

ssh -D 4000 [email protected]

4000 is your local port. admin is the username on your linux box, and 192.168.1.1 is your ip address.

So lets say your public IP is 8.8.8.8, your linux username is kleerkut and you want to connect from another computer(client) over the internet.

All you do is ssh -D 4000 [email protected] And then in your browser settings you simply go into proxy settings and set your local ip(127.0.0.1) and the port number 4000

On windows client you can use putty to do the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9GNTXvJoNc

configure proxy in firefox as example

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/connection-settings-firefox

You want to set SOCKS host to 127.0.0.1 and port 4000 or whatever port you selected in putty or in the ssh command line. Basically you are connecting to your own computer as its now running a proxy server that is forwarding traffic to your SSH linux server.

For the above you need to have the ssh port exposed to the internet. You can do that using a port forwarding on your router.

For reverse tunnel you can do something like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS4YOYSz8Jo

Right so the end result would be something similar to a VPN connection. You can just type ip address of the rpi/ipcam etc as if its on your local network.