Looking for an addon that allows me to use my own home VPN

VPN
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I have a PPTP VPN server running on my ASUS AC5300, I wanted to route traffic from firefox through my home VPN using an addon. Most of the add-ons I have been finding use a pre-existing list of VPNs. I need an addon that lets me customize the list of VPNs so that I can connect to my home one. Anything like that out there I have spent days searching.

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VPN’s are lower down the stack that the browser knows about. They are virtual networks so the browser has no clue who it is talking about. You need to configure the operating system to use the VPN if you have one.

When providers on the internet say the have a VPN for your browser they actually mean a VPN that has a proxy configured on it. Your browser uses that proxy since proxies are at TCP level.

I think you either need to setup your entire OS to use the VPN and Firefox will follow along or install a proxy on the VPN server and make Firefox use that proxy. You don’t need a VPN in this situation, just a proxy.

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VPNs are a network layer thing, it’s not possible to do that in the browser.

If you really want to do this on the browser level, you could do it by means of a proxy server. For example, it’s quite easy to setup a SSH tunnel with a SOCKS proxy in front of it that you can let Firefox use.

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I can’t go the OS VPN route as my company will only allow me to connect to its pages from the office IP wich I can do from a different browser. I will have to look into the proxy on the VPN not sure how to set that up on the RT-AC5300. Thanks

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This worked nicely. Had to use OpenSSH on windows on the home pc but it seems to be working right in Firefox thanks

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I don’t know… put a raspberry PI behind it with the proxy software :stuck_out_tongue:

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If I did that would my company be able to see the traffic or will it be encrypted like with VPN?

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SOCKS5 proxies do not have encryption by default so you need to use a SSH tunel. It should be pretty easy to configure, SSH is widely used has strong encryption.

SSH relies on TOFU (Trust On First Use) so if you see a warning that the key of the server has changed you should get suspicious.

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Followed the instructions and it seems to be working. Firefox gives me my home IP and chrome gives me office IP. Thanks

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Ha ha! Great! Glad to help :slight_smile: