Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch?
Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch?
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:
- Pause torrents
- Connect VPN
- Open qBittorrent. Go to Preferences, and then Advanced tab
- Change network interface to tun0. If unsure, disconnect VPN and restart qBittorrent then repeat step 1 to see which interface appears.
- Restart qBittorrent
- 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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Adding to the qbittorrent recommendations: qb has Socks5 support and and supports binding traffic to a specific interface. It doesn't get much better than this.
Yes it can get better :P https://lemmy.world/comment/5269089
I mean... That essentially does the same thing but it's much more complicated than just clicking a button in the qb GUI...
True, but enforcing the restriction at the systemd level will be safer. Frankly I like Transmission.
Fair enough.