vopono is a tool to run applications through VPN tunnels via temporary network namespaces. This allows you to run only a handful of applications through different VPNs simultaneously, whilst keeping your main connection as normal.
vopono includes built-in killswitches for both Wireguard and OpenVPN.
Currently Mullvad, AzireVPN, MozillaVPN, TigerVPN, ProtonVPN and
PrivateInternetAccess are supported directly, with custom configuration files
also supported with the --custom
argument.
Screenshot showing an example with firefox, google-chrome-stable and lynx all running through different VPN connections:
Provider | OpenVPN support | Wireguard support |
---|---|---|
Mullvad | ✅ | ✅ |
AzireVPN | ✅ | ✅ |
PrivateInternetAccess | ✅ | ❌ |
TigerVPN | ✅ | ❌ |
ProtonVPN | ✅ | ❌ |
MozillaVPN | ❌ | ✅ |
Set up VPN provider configuration files:
$ vopono sync
Run Firefox through an AzireVPN Wireguard connection to a server in Norway:
$ vopono exec --provider azirevpn --server norway firefox
vopono can handle up to 255 separate network namespaces (i.e. different VPN server connections - if your VPN provider allows it). Commands launched with the same server prefix and VPN provider will share the same network namespace.
See the vopono User Guide for much more detailed usage instructions (including handling daemons and servers).
Install the vopono-git
package with your favourite AUR helper.
$ yay -S vopono-git
$ vopono sync
Alternatively use the vopono-bin
package if you don't want to compile
from source.
Download and install the vopono_x.y.z_armhf.deb
package from the
releases page:
$ sudo dpkg -i vopono_0.2.1_armhf.deb
You will need to install OpenVPN (available in the Raspbian repos):
$ sudo apt install openvpn
You can then use vopono as above (note that the Chromium binary is
chromium-browser
):
$ vopono sync --protocol openvpn mullvad
$ vopono exec --provider mullvad --server sweden chromium-browser
Screenshot of vopono with OpenVPN running on Raspbian:
Note Wireguard is not in the Raspbian repositories, so installing it is
not trivial. You can follow this guide to attempt it, but note that
not only do you need to install Wireguard and wireguard-tools
to have wg
available, but also the linux-headers
to ensure it works correctly
(i.e. you don't just get Protocol not supported
errors when trying to
establish a connection).
Check the User Guide for details on port forwarding and using vopono with daemons and servers, in case you want to use your Raspberry Pi to run privoxy or transmission-daemon, etc.
Install the deb package provided on the releases page.
Install the rpm package provided on the release page (choose the correct version).
Either use the compiled binaries on the release page, or install from source with Cargo as documented below.
Run the install script provided: install.sh
- this will cargo install
the repository and copy over the configuration files to
~/.config/vopono/
Note the minimum supported Rust version is 1.43. You can check your version with:
$ rustc --version
- OpenVPN credentials are always stored in plaintext in configuration - may add option to not store credentials, but it seems OpenVPN needs them provided in plaintext.
- ProtonVPN DNS servers do not reliably connect, so Google's DNS is used
for now (you can override this with the
--dns
argument. - There is no easy way to delete MozillaVPN devices (Wireguard keypairs) - unlike Mullvad this cannot be done on the webpage. I recommend using MozWire to manage this.
vopono is licensed under the GPL Version 3.0 (or above), see the LICENSE file or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
vopono is the pronunciation of the letters VPN in Esperanto.
Se vi ankaŭ parolas Esperanton, bonvolu serĉi min en la kanalo de Discord de Rust Programming Language Community.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, will be licensed under the GPLv3 (or above), without any additional terms or conditions.
Many thanks to NilIrl's MozWire for the investigation of the MozillaVPN API.