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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: Obeliks on April 26, 2006, 06:06:51 PM

Title: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: Obeliks on April 26, 2006, 06:06:51 PM

Hi. I installed aMule yesterday, so I can have it running on my fileserver all night long ;)

Now my problem is, that I'm behind a NAT (and if that wasn't enough, ed2k traffic is limited to 10k or something).
Since the server has a steady connection to an OpenVPN server, I was wondering if I can patch aMule through there? I tried googling and searching the usual suspects (including this forum), but I didn't exactly stumble across any regarding information.

Thanks for any advice you can give me!

Sincerely, Obeliks

Title: Re: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: stefanero on April 26, 2006, 11:51:29 PM

just change the default route to go to the openvpn gateway...amule will use that aswell and all your traffic will go there...

Title: Re: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: Obeliks on April 30, 2006, 02:36:34 PM

Thanks, but that won't work... I can't have all the traffic going via the OpenVPN, for performance and financial (traffic) reasons...

I guess amule doesn't support binding to a certain IP or network interface? too bad...

Title: Re: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: Kry on April 30, 2006, 07:49:09 PM

It does. check preferences.

Title: Re: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: Obeliks on April 30, 2006, 07:55:19 PM

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Originally posted by Kry
It does. check preferences.

Sorry I missed that. Is this option available in the amuled daemon config? Because I can't find it there... or am I being blind? ;)

Title: Re: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: Kry on April 30, 2006, 08:06:51 PM

Code: [Select]

grep -hi addr amule.conf
Address=
ECAddress=

Title: Re: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: Obeliks on April 30, 2006, 08:11:40 PM

Ok, I am being blind. Sorry! Thanks for your help!

Title: Re: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: Obeliks on May 01, 2006, 11:29:12 AM

Ok, I tried putting Address=172.20.0.6 (my openvpn address), but all connections still seem to be made locally, none via the vpn.
What could I be doing wrong?

EDIT: Ok, I'm postponing this question. Obviously just listening on the openvpn address doesn't route created connections through it. Hope I can figure out how to narrow an iptables rule down to all packages from amule. Any ideas?

Title: Re: aMule via OpenVPN?
Post by: Obeliks on May 01, 2006, 11:39:29 PM

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Originally posted by Kry
It does.

But I guess aMule doesn't support binding to a certain interface/address for outgoing connections, does it? Because OpenVPN drops the packages for having a bad/unknown source address, and my efforts to mangle the address failed so far.