asked 2015-12-06 20:02:30 +0200
Has someone managed to configure openvpn on a Jolla phone so that a VPN connection is started whenever the wifi network goes online?
I have tried Securefishnet, but it doesn't reconnect to the VPN if the network goes down and then up again. There is a reference on https://together.jolla.com/question/305/vpn-client/ about the possibility of doing it using the DBus Connman API, but that's all I could find.
Thanks!
answered 2015-12-06 23:31:09 +0200
[Update 17.8.18: The vpn service found in settings is routing ALL TRAFIC through vpn. There was no difference for me with oder without "redirect-gateway" in conf/ovpn-file. This may be good for many peoples but not for me. I deleted my vpn config in settings and use this proven method. Now only my mails are routing about vpn. Testing on Xperia X with 2.2]
I have a systemd service in /etc/systemd/system/
You need root access and you must able to use the terminal. OK? Let's start:
Change to /etc/systemd/system. Create a file myopenvpnhost.service with "myopenvpnhost" is the name of your openvpn configuration found in /etc/openvpn. Type in this new myopenvpnhost.service:
[Unit]
Description=OpenVPN Robust And Highly Flexible Tunneling Application On MyOpenVPNHost
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/myopenvpnhost.pid
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon --writepid /var/run/myopenvpnhost.pid --cd /etc/openvpn/ --config /etc/openvpn/myopenvpnhost.conf
Restart=always
RestartSec=60
ExecStop=killall -9 openvpn
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
In myopenvpnhost.conf is your openvpn configuration. Now try this systemd service:
systemctl start myopenvpnhost.service
systemctl status myopenvpnhost.service
Check the log, then stop the test with
systemctl stop myopenvpnhost.service
If all ok type
systemctl enable myopenvpnhost.service
Then openvpn started - with a small delay (see "RestartSec" option above) - every time the network started.
Works by me since February 2014.
[edit 6.12.15 layout]
[edit 17.8.18 path for .service file]
answered 2016-09-18 22:43:07 +0200
I am using securefishnet and it can reconnect fine, the problem is when the radio switches between wifi to mobile data. It then cannot connect, is there a patch for that or is the solution above ok for sailfish 2.0.3.14?
I would also like to use VPN via mobile data ;-) Unfortunatly many mobile provider prohibit VPN connections because they like to track you since it's their business ;-( Using VPN in most Wifi works luckily.
Marti Masa K ( 2016-11-19 20:15:27 +0200 )edit@Marti Masa K have since figured it out works on.mobile and wifi, but every time radio switches disable DNS queries to VPN , this doesn't work for browsing the web otherwise and most apps dont like that routing either.
DarkTuring ( 2016-11-20 06:21:09 +0200 )editAsked: 2015-12-06 20:02:30 +0200
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Last updated: Aug 17 '18
