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Old 03-19-2014, 04:28 AM   #1
charlemagne-is-my-son
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Transparent proxy...VPN won't work? confused


So I've been trying to get PureVPN to work. It works fine in public wifi locations, but not in my apartment.

1) I tried using it in Windows and Linux. Fails on both OSs
2) My friend who uses Astrill used the ethernet in my place, and it worked.
3) I tried my computer on his wire in the same apartment building, and it did not work.
4) If I ping any of the gateways, I get a response.
5) I get ERROR 806 when using Windows: says that GRE protocol packets are not getting through
6) ifconfig and IPChicken give me different IP addresses, which maybe means I am going through a transparent proxy
7) When I tried to get astrill, they said i was blocked because I was already coming through a proxy

Somebody in another thread suggested wireshark. somebody else suggested changing something with TCP.

Should I post my netstat output, or does that include sensitive info?


I don't know how to do any of that.

Please help

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Old 03-19-2014, 09:31 PM   #2
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So I've been trying to get PureVPN to work. It works fine in public wifi locations, but not in my apartment.
Could be an issue with your broadband provider and/or router.
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2) My friend who uses Astrill used the ethernet in my place, and it worked.
That's a different VPN service, one which supports a multitude of VPN protocols.
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3) I tried my computer on his wire in the same apartment building, and it did not work.
Does he use the same ISP/broadband provider or does he by any chance use the same make/model router?
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5) I get ERROR 806 when using Windows: says that GRE protocol packets are not getting through
That means you're trying to use PPTP, and if you're behind NAT (which you are, like just about everybody else) that only works if the router has specific PPTP passthrough support.

From their website it seems PureVPN supports other VPN protocols as well, like L2TP and SSTP. You should try SSTP, as it's significantly more NAT-friendly than the other protocols. Also, unlike PPTP, SSTP actually provides some security (PPTP is badly broken and will never be fixed).
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6) ifconfig and IPChicken give me different IP addresses, which maybe means I am going through a transparent proxy
No, it means you're behind NAT. IPChicken shows your public IP address (assigned to your router), while ifconfig shows the local, private IP addess assigned to your PC.

(Besides, if the proxy could be detected so easily, it wouldn't be very "transparent", would it?)
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Should I post my netstat output, or does that include sensitive info?
No, IP addresses aren't generally considered sensitive information.
 
  


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