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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Alan - you're right, vpn in what I'm after. Thanks for the tip of 
the commandline - will give it a go at some point. Looking forward to 
seeing this also in the network manager gui.

M

On 06/05/15 09:17, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 6 May 2015 at 00:07, Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm also extremely interested in this. I live in Australia, which has
> > recently become a police state in terms of monitoring internet traffic (hi
> > ASIO!). Very keen to implement a proxy asap.
> (I don't want to get into the details of police states, however..)
>
> You might be interested to know we recently seeded openvpn packages in
> the vivid images. This should mean that soon you could VPN to a remote
> host for your internet traffic, which may be preferable to using a
> proxy. I don't believe that openvpn is hooked up to the network
> indicator / network manager on the phone yet, but you could certainly
> manually configure it via the command line (much as you and other
> suggest using iptables).
>
> I've not configured openvpn via the command line myself, but I know
> others on this list have. They may well step up and detail how to set
> it up on the phone.
>
> Cheers,