I am using ProtonVPN, and have (or so I thought) set up qBittorrent to bind to the network interface that ProtonVPN is using (tun0). The connection symbol turns red if I turn off the VPN, and downloads will stop. However, when checking the torrent address on ipleak.net, it seems that this bind is not working properly - my real...
It is the “Torrent Address detection” magnet link I am using, and it is this that reveals my real IP when the VPN is disabled. The traffic in qBittorrent stops though.
EDIT: And as I mentioned in an earlier post, it works as intended if I open the client when not connected to the VPN. It is just if the client is running while I disconnect that this problem occurs, as far as I can tell.
That was the case until the recent update to the Linux GUI client. I had to change the network interface bind in qBittorrent because the proton0-one stopped appearing. I assumed they had just made some changes, but could this mean that something is faulty with my install?
Yeah, that is true - I didn’t formulate that quite well. This also happens to me when the kill switch is enabled, as it is disabled when I disconnect. However, it would not disable itself if I simply lost connection, which is in the case where I most want the leak protection. In the other cases, I could make sure to always quit qBittorrent before disconnecting from the VPN. Not ideal, as it would be easy to make a mistake.
tun0 goes away when I am disconnected, so I don’t think anything is keeping it open. I noticed that connections in Proton VPN were set to UDP, so I changed this to TCP and this seems to have worked. Will still want to do more testing to be sure.
I don’t seem to have v3 installed, by the way. The old GUI tool seems to have been uninstalled when upgrading, and the CLI tool I unisntalled myself.
qBittorrent network interface bind not working?
I am using ProtonVPN, and have (or so I thought) set up qBittorrent to bind to the network interface that ProtonVPN is using (tun0). The connection symbol turns red if I turn off the VPN, and downloads will stop. However, when checking the torrent address on ipleak.net, it seems that this bind is not working properly - my real...