PIA VPN Set-up

cherrie

What is PIA VPN? With ota3 vpnc is included which allows to access a Cisco VPN network.

wgarcia

@cherrie Vpnc and CISCO VPN, that's interesting. How can the settings be entered? Has the connection to be established from the command line, editing a configuration file, or can the setttings be entered with the configuration gui interface? There the only available option seems to be OpenVPN.

UKPhil

Private Internet Access

I see on the downloads site there is a download for linux, but I was under the understanding that this did not support UBPorts.

UKPhil

@wgarcia said in PIA VPN Set-up:
There the only available option seems to be OpenVPN.

That is the issue that there is only the Open VPN options.

cherrie

@wgarcia I tested it so far on a N5 running RC. Create a config file e.g. vpn.conf
#######################################
IPSec gateway <name-of-vpn-gw>
IPSec ID <ID>
IPSec obfuscated secret <long line of characters make sure it is on 1 line>
Xauth username <your-login>
#######################################

Now call: sudo vpnc-connect --domain <your-domain> /home/phablet/vpn.conf
It will ask first your sudo password, then the password for the VPN service.
At the end this message will be displayed.
VPNC started in background (pid: xxxxxxx)...

Execute command: ifconfig tun0
and you should have a tunnel interface with an IP Address.

To disconnect type: sudo vpnc-disconnect

There is no GUI at the moment, current VPN offers only OpenVPN.

UKPhil

Is this for all (including PIA)?

cherrie

@ukphil PIA uses OpenVPN, so my understanding is you can use the UBPorts GUI interface.

UKPhil

I have been searching for info. on how to set the Touch VPN options to run my PIA account, but still no luck.

advocatux

@ukphil what @UniSuperBox told you doesn't work anymore?

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/553/private-internet-access-app/2

Daryl

@ukphil hI uk Phil: I saw your comments about PIA VPN set up that uou posted 6 years ago.

I got my Aquaris M10 FHD updated to Ubuntu 16.04 this week and wondered if you have made progress in getting PIA installed on 16.04.

There is a good web page on how to install PIA for a Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2020/06/raspberry-pi-vpn-setup-guide/

It has worked well for my on my pi computers.... but I don't know if it will work for the Ubports Ubuntu Tablet.

It seems that it might work, if the operating system (16.04) is really Ubuntu linux.

Could you please comment so that I could think and learn more, please?

Thanks,
Daryl