How to do with mullvad VPN?

Rinkeby · 30 Sept 2023, 12:12

Hi,

has anyone manage to get Mullvad VPN to work? I saw a post here trying to show, but it doesnt work out for me. Connection time out.

Best regards

arubislander · 3 Oct 2023, 10:39

@Rinkeby Not sure why the extra step of making an env variable named file is suggested. You could also simply do:

sudo nmcli connection import type wireguard file "<path/to/your/mullvad/config/file>"

and replace <path/to/your/mullvad/config/file> with the actual full path.

Rinkeby · 30 Sept 2023, 14:48

@Rinkeby

Personally I think it might boil down to, CBC and GCM. Mullvad is using GCM and UT offers only CBC. Any thoughts?

dloriq · 2 Oct 2023, 16:08

I'm using mullvad but its not very friendly. I made a wireguard config and then imported it with nmcli in the terminal. The only downside is that mms will not work when the vpn is on for some reason. I got the openvpn config to work too but it was too much work to figure it out. Another option would be to have mullvad run in waydroid.

To turn off the vpn i just do nmcli in the terminal and turn it off in there.

Set up shell environment variable: file='/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf'
Now import it using the nmcli command: sudo nmcli connection import type wireguard file "$file"

source: How to import WireGuard profile using nmcli on Linux Author: Vivek Gite

Rinkeby · 2 Oct 2023, 21:19

@dloriq

Cool! I try it out! Is this under focal only?

And I can confirm that openvpn fails my service by ony providing CBC and not GCM.

I hope that will be included shortly.

arubislander · 2 Oct 2023, 21:57

@Rinkeby UT includes the encryption ciphers that the base Ubuntu includes. I doubt very much any ciphers would be added specially to UT that were not available in the base Ubuntu version it is based on.

Are you on Xenial, by any chance? In that case I am afraid you would be out of luck on that front.

Rinkeby · 3 Oct 2023, 09:17

@arubislander

Thanks for the info. Thats sad. But gonna try the wiregard trick instead then

Rinkeby · 3 Oct 2023, 09:32

@dloriq

and by "file=" you mean? Sorry that I dont understand this simple thing. But I see nowhere where my real file from mullvad should be placed? Is "file=" the path and everything to my mullvad conf file?

Like

/home/es_mad_wg_002.conf='/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf'

Like that?

arubislander · 3 Oct 2023, 10:39

@Rinkeby Not sure why the extra step of making an env variable named file is suggested. You could also simply do:

sudo nmcli connection import type wireguard file "<path/to/your/mullvad/config/file>"

and replace <path/to/your/mullvad/config/file> with the actual full path.

Rinkeby · 3 Oct 2023, 13:01

@arubislander

Wow arubi! You just fixed everything with one line. It works. Super simple! So many thank yous! You saved Ubuntu for me there.

Your post should be pinned how to solve mullvad.

Thank you again!

Rinkeby · 3 Oct 2023, 13:08

@arubislander

sorry arubi. Try to mark the post as solved again if you want. I accidentally removed your correct status

arubislander · 3 Oct 2023, 13:13

@Rinkeby No problem, you go ahead and mark my answer as having solved your issue... looks better that way, anyhow... :grinning_squinting_face:

dloriq · 4 Oct 2023, 23:54

@Rinkeby Sorry I am just barely seeing this didn't recieve any notifications. The instructions were from this article lHow to import WireGuard profile using nmcli on Linuxt but as @arubislander mentioned its simpler to run without the environment variable.

@arubislander said in How to do with mullvad VPN?:

@Rinkeby No problem, you go ahead and mark my answer as having solved your issue... looks better that way, anyhow... :grinning_squinting_face:

LOL