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Aftersome digging, I found out that in order for me to use Mullvad, the daemon needs to be running in the background, but the mullvad-daemon.service file for Systemd was missing. I assumed this is because the OS is immutable, so in the install it did not create the mullvad-daemon.service file as the /lib/systemd/system/ directory is immutable.

There were other things I tried too, like setting User=root and Group=root in my service file, but that did not change anything at all. I also tried making a user service, which did not do much either, seeing as mullvad-daemon needs to be run with root.

And to be clear, the daemon runs properly when running it directly. From there I can just run Mullvad VPN like usual, and it would work. But I need the daemon to be started, because it wont do to keep starting the daemon manually. It also needs to be running if I wish to use the terminal client.

Recently installed OpenWrt on a TD-8980.

Installed Wireguard and Vpn-Policy-Routing and everything works fine but i don't have internet connectivity in the router when Mullvad DNS is set in the Wan interface.

No ping, no opkg update, no DDNS update.

If i disable Mullvad DNS everything comes back to normal.

You've setup a chicken or egg situation... by setting the mullvad DNS for the WAN, it is not possible for the DNS to work unless the tunnel is up. The tunnel cannot be established because the specified dns server is not available to resolve the IP address to connect and bring up the tunnel.

Your WAN DNS should be something accessible all the time -- a public one like google, cloud flare, opendns, etc. would be a good option. You can then set the preferred DNS for your LAN(s) in the dnsmasq configuration.

As long as your devices use your router as their DNS (if using DHCP, assuming no overrides, this will be the case), your router will resolve whatever it can (local stuff), and it will forward DNS to the upstream forwarder as needed for everything else.

Your dhcp file seems to be messed up... specifically, it appears that it is doubled up and the formatting might have gotten messed up (unless this was simply a mistake aas it was pasted into the forum).

I would always choose Mullvad, they feel more transparent about everything and have fair pricing. There is also a browser extension so you can utilize SOCKS5 proxy to change country without changing servers.

I have not faced a single reasonable explanation why Proton cannot be trusted so far. You may not like its UI, pricing etc, but their products are very robust privacy and security-wise. So, dont mix your feelings with the reality on the ground.

Proton vpn disabled port forwarding some time ago, just like mullvad disabled it. Its hard finding a vpn that support that on pg. Pg has not been updated to reflect it. I think ivpn still does, but havent checked.

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Seems I was mistaken and co fused with mullvad.

mullvad removed port forwarding source

Ivpn does not support it source

Proton seems yo still support it. I wonder if its easy to do it on a wireguatd enabled router.

It does not look like to me that Mullvad has this ability, as accounts are not connected to email or other identifiable information. In my view, Mullvad has put much more thought into their signup flow to prevent issues like the above.

I have been suffering from quite a few instances of MB404104 error where my machine will not connect and then times out. I had tried several things to no avail. The recent Windows upgrade muddied the waters for me.

However, totally separately I was looking at the logs of my TP-Link Deco Mesh Router system which has a built-in Trend Firewall. I noticed it was claiming very frequently to have "protected" me from a "Proxy Avoidance" attack. The details were that it had blocked a connection to ipv4.am.i.mullvad.net . A little further digging turned up that the MalwareBytes Privacy system makes some use of I am mullvad .

Obviously not a fix for everybody, but perhaps somebody else out there is suffering from the same set of circumstances. Perhaps MalwareBytes people need to talk to the Trend Micro people to get the software whitelisted by them.

The big issue instead is that the desktop application relies on a system-level daemon that can either be configured to start at boot, or the application manages itself when you start or stop the VPN. The GUI is just a shell that talks with this daemon via RPC: mullvadvpn-app/architecture.md at master mullvad/mullvadvpn-app GitHub

Flatpak can sort of run background daemons, but it requires --devel permissions which makes the sandbox security a joke. We use it in the opencpn project for some plugins which provides DRM stuff using a binary blob running in background.

In addition, nothing in the AUR is official for archlinux. I read the quote you pulled as meaning "this client is the official one made by mullvad" (not "this is the official arch package from mullvad"). So I wouldn't think any edit is necessary or useful here.

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In addition, nothing in the AUR is official for archlinux. I read the quote you pulled as meaning "this client is the official one made by mullvad" not ("this is the official arch package from mullvad"). So I wouldn't think any edit is necessary or useful here.

"-bin" as a suffix in the AUR tends to mean the package installs a precompiled binary rather than building it from-source. Looking at the sources listed for both packages, you can see the -bin package grabs packages premade for other distros (which it then unpacks correctly for use on Arch).

Think of something like slack, where the source code is not available. The way it gets packaged for Archlinux is with a PKGBUILD that grabs precompiled binaries (because the source necessary to build binaries is unavailable) and correctly converts the packaging format for Arch's ecosystem.

-bin packages then are using the same strategy (though, often for a different reason). For example, you'll find a librewolf and a librewolf-bin package in the AUR. Building a browser from-source is an intense operation, and lower-power machines may not be up to the task pleasantly. So, people might prefer using the -bin package to avoid having to build on their own machine. It's a slightly different threat model (either way, you trust the developer and the source-distribution; for -bin packages, you also have to trust the intermediate packager), but it's not radically different. Up to you on which you want to use and why; it's your system after all.

I am getting little uneasy here. Now that i booted up my pc and launched the vms forgetting to manually go to the mullvad vpn and launch the vpn, now the app vms happily connected to internet WITHOUT mullvad vpn. Mullvad vpn proxy vms all has the killswitch enabled.

Anyway I'm in the Network Connections utility/panel/applet/whatever-it-is and I am trying to figure this out. I specified that I wish to create an OpenVPN connection and it is asking me for some settings.

From Mullvad I downloaded my linux settings as a compressed folder and I have some files inside a folder named as my user-name (user-number, actually): ca.crt, crl.pem, mullvad.crt, mullvad.key, and mullvad_linux.conf.

The OpenVPN window is asking me for some files, but I don't know which are which. It is set to use Certificates(TLS) and is asking me for User Certificate, CA Certificate, and Private Key. (It also wants a Private Key Password in a password-entry box.)

I have an ubuntu machine with one interface connected to the internet (through mullvad). A RPi box is connected to another ethernet interface on my ubuntu box. Connection works if mullvad is turned off so now I am trying to exclude all traffic from RPi to the internet from mullvad.

The problem with the solution based on mullvad's own tutorial that everybody is sharing is that packets forwarded from a subnet never hit the input or output hook, going through prerouting, forward and postrouting instead. Here's a nice diagram that helped me a lot.

Unfortunately anything added to mullvad table would disappear whenever I turn mullvad off and then back on. In this case I need to add the rule again manually (or put it in a separate script). I couldn't find a way to automate it.

Mullvad exit nodes let you use Mullvad VPN endpoints as exit nodes for your Tailscale network (called a tailnet). For more information on Mullvad's network infrastructure, refer to the Mullvad server documentation.

Mullvad exit nodes with Tailscale 1.48.1 or 1.48.2 use your current DNS configuration. If you do not have one of the following settings configured, you might lose access to DNS (effectively losing internet access).

Selecting Override local DNS causes Tailscale to configure all clients to use the selected DNS server for all DNS queries while Tailscale is connected, even if you are not using an exit node. When used with the Mullvad Public DNS nameservers, this ensures all DNS routes through Mullvad and provides a green check for DNS leaks on mullvad.net/check.

Using the Allow Local Network Access option in your client settings allows DNS leaks to occur but also ensures that local DNS names, such as a local printer name or a local NAS server name, continue to work.

Using Mullvad for teams can become cumbersome when configuring access through the admin console. Tailscale provides an option to configure Mullvad access using access control lists for greater control.

You can use access control lists (ACLs) directly to configure device access to Mullvad exit nodes adding a mullvad node attribute in your tailnet policy file to the devices you plan to use with Mullvad exit nodes.

This method allows you to assign access to Mullvad for more devices than your current plan allows. When doing so, devices use available paid device slots on a first-come, first-served basis. If all paid slots are in use, devices outside the selected quota will not have Mullvad exit nodes as an option. When using ACLs to configure Mullvad access, ensure you have purchased enough Mullvad licenses to cover the needs of your environment.

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