[tor-talk] Tor VPN Server selfmade

[Fabian Keil]

Gijs <gpeskens85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not run something like "redsocks" (first hit on transparent socks)
> http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks/ on VM1 ? It is a program that sits in between
> the proxy and client. You then configure the firewall running on VM1 to
> redirect traffic only through redsocks and allow no other connections.
> I'd use FreeBSD/OpenBSD for this as my OS of choice as PF is very simple
> and very powerfull, plus they are (imho) the most secure OS's.

While redsocks looks interesting, it's not clear to
me why you need it in this configuration at all.

What benefit does it offer compared to letting pf redirect
the TCP connection into Tor's TransPort directly and using
Tor as DNS server.

Fabian
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