Hello,

I'm fairly new to Linux.

What is the best VPN for Centos 7?

I want to be hidden from my ISP.

Looking forward to answers here. It's my understanding that you can't "hide" from the provider that's making your internet connection....

Kind of a few things going on here. The name VPN used to mean almost always only a dedicated pipe from one point to the other in some secure wrapper.

Now VPN is also a term that folks somehow believe they can evade some sort of inspection. If one were to VPN to some (unknown) company then traverse the internet they would have to assume this unknown company could view all things that they do.

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I use OpenVPN for my VPN connection needs. So if you are asking for VPN software this is my vote.

If on the other hand you are looking for a VPN provider then you need to look for someone that supports OpenVPN and here's why. If you use some provider that requires you to use their proprietary software do you really know what you are installing or what they will be able to see and do? OpenVPN is open software that is looked at by many people and you can assume it is safe to use where as the providers software is closed and doesn't get the full eyes on to ensure it not doing something in the background.

If you are looking for a provider then you can search the web and make up your own mind as to what you are willing to pay or not pay.

i have used privateinternetaccess.com's vpn, they have support for linux mac windows and chrome / firefox as browser extensions.

3 year contract were 80'ish €

Yes, this is what I have purchased. I'm having an issue installing it.

After I "tar -vxf" the downloaded file. I ran the .sh file and it looks like it installed but I see nothing.

How did you get it to work?

What am I missing?

pia seems to work best with apt based distros - Debian/Ubuntu/Mint. I have a Mint system I am responsible for that pia works "out of the box" on. For Fedora I had to write my own dispatcher for NetworkManager. I also haven't updated their client (didn't know there were even updates) but when I opened a ticket recently, they informed me their client was going open-source. On github methinks, but I'll have to find the email as I haven't chased it up.

To All:

My wife sometimes works from home! Great! She has to DIAL-In to work on her "WINDOZE!" LAPTOP.

I am about to setup VLAN's and give her a VLAN on my ATT Fiber network(@home) just for her windoze! Is it possible for her to VPN to work from a VLAN at home?
Is hardware and issue? (I hope not) I want to be able to talk to the IT shop at her job and see if we can get this up and running.

cajunchief

Dial-up and VPN are two different animals. The only way your wife will be able to VPN into work is if they support it and give her the credentials to do so. Seeing how she needs to use dial-up now I'm thinking they don't or they should have moved her over a long time ago.

It may be possible for her to use some sort of remote desktop but the company she works for will need to authorize this.

Lazydog,

I know modem dialup and VPNs are different.
My wife is using authorized VPN now at this time.
Can i setup vlans and have one for windoze.
And then she would VPNZ to hwr work from a
Vlan at home?

cajunchief

Can you? Maybe...depends on what networking hardware you have at your home. Should you? I think this falls into the "Why bother?" category. If you have ONE internet connection, and she initiates a VPN connection from her Windows workstation to her employer, that doesn't affect anything else on your network. The tunnel is between her system and her employer.

Setting up a VLAN for a Windows machine, so that VLAN can meet your OTHER VLAN on the way out to the Internet seems like work for no real reason. What are you trying to accomplish by doing this?

As TBOne said what is the reason for setting this up? Seems you are going out of your way for no good reason.

TBone, lazydog,

My rational, worthy or not, was that there would be a separation of her lan traffic via her vlan to work over her authorized VPN.

I was thinking it would keep her traffic on her playland out of my playland?

cajunchief

Again: what's the point??? VPN traffic is end-to-end encrypted; not going to 'leak' anywhere else. And as soon as ANY traffic leaves your home network and gets out to the Internet, it's all coming from the same address anyway, just to different destinations. You're going to slow your home network down (because VLANs' take CPU and memory from your router), for no reason or benefit.

And you certainly aren't going to solve any potential bandwidth issues, since (no matter how many VLANs' you have), you're **STILL** sharing one outgoing connection. That is your bottleneck. So again: do whatever you'd like, it's your network. Just a lot of effort for no payoff.