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Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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?

UPDATE: Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I decided to give qbittorrent a try and have been enjoying it so far.

I followed these steps to bind it to my VPN from on Linux:

  1. Pause torrents
  2. Connect VPN
  3. Open qBittorrent. Go to Preferences, and then Advanced tab
  4. Change network interface to tun0. If unsure, disconnect VPN and restart qBittorrent then repeat step 1 to see which interface appears.
  5. Restart qBittorrent
  6. Test it out on the official kubuntu torrent or your favourite distro from LinuxTracker.org. Turn your VPN on and off while verifying whether it pauses and resumes downloading.
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ditch torrents and go to usenet

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's going on?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Much like in the attached image, OP has requested help with a specific thing and the responder has not provided any helpful information and has simply told OP to do something completely different with no further explanation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

And the person giving the correct answer got downvoted.

Nice. Will use in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Usenet is okay but there's some stuff I can only find on torrents

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have usenet as my primary with torrent as a backup. I get probably 80-90% hits on usenet for the most part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the stuff I can't find on Usenet is usually old and very obscure. Anime, without the right usenet subs, is particularly hard to find.