I saw other post about this. but that was for NordVPN. and whoever didn't wanna help because of that I think is what happened.
Anyway. I have Proton VPN, I don't REALLY want to run the proton VPN on my whole connection if its possible to
setup Tixati for use with Proton this way.
Not sure how to test whether I have it setup properly or not.
I see the IPV4 address has a new option when I have the VPN actually running.
Under the IPv4 Address or Interface I click the 3 dots. and there are 3 things I can select. one is an Address That resembles a Registry key.
Then my actual network adapter is shown.
Then an IP address, Internet network 192.168.1.188
Ipv6 has a BUNCH of stuff.
I'm assuming we're going to work on IPV4.
Now. I've fired up the VPN and i have new options Another address that resembles a registry key again 2nd line says = Wireguard Tunnel, 3rd line = 10.2.0.2
What I am ASSUMING is I would select the registry key looking number on the 2nd portion of the IPv4 when I have the VPN enabled.
Then Tixati would then use that address even if the VPN APP isnt active?
Side note. With the VPN running. my IPV6 in th connections tab of Tixati only has the 3 items. Registry looking address, Software Loopback Interface 1 and the 3rd line reads= ::1
Any help? I hope ive explained well enough. =\
Thanks a bunch.
Sorry I am really new to setting this up. If this is too much to understand and would just be a hell of a lot easier to run the VPN app. I guess i would just have to remember to run in anytime I need it.
But that is the reason for this post. To avoid the MIstake of accidently Doing something without firing up the VPN.
You explained it well enough to understand ;)
Not this is not possible. The connection must be set up and running for Tixati to use it. This setting is a useful safeguard to make sure Tixati will never use your real connection even if the VPN is disconnected.
Technically it is possible to achieve this, but this requires a configuration that nobody supports out of the box. If the VPN connection did not override the default route to reach the internet, then only apps like Tixati that explicitly want the VPN IP address would communicate over the VPN, and the rest of the system wouldn't.
I've achieved this configuration by hand on Windows for OpenVPN, but there's a bug associated with it. I suggest to use a namespaced VPN connection under Linux instead and confine Tixati to that single network namespace. The setup is slightly easier even with increased resilience (security-wise). A proxied connection is not the same and kills port-forwarding, unless the proxy supports UDP port forwarding (Tixati already does support it).
