This may not be a phone specific question, but I have new (currently unrooted) Pixel 3XL thus thought I would post here.
Without naming particular apps, I am trying to see if it is any longer possible to connect remotely to my home server(s) to be able to watch and stream various live tv programming. There used to be a modified app that was able to bypass the vpn options.
I have both OpenVPN and Shadowsocks Socks5 connnections created and working, and I can connect with either to my home network. However, it appears both of these still rely on making use of the Android VPN service, and I think that is why certain apps will not work over VPN?
I had thought Shadowsocks would not use the android VPN, but it appears to still does.
I have not tried anything else yet regarding SSH tunnel, etc., and open to any ideas if/how you may be able hide or mask your vpn connection from select apps on your phone.
Thanks,
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Does anyone know of a ROM in which the PPTP VPN actually works? I've tried 6 or 7 different roms today and have yet to find one that works. Is this a Google issue, or something else? Surely some developer must have tested this function and can speak to whether or not the VPN works. I recall that in WINMO only a few roms had reliable VPN functionally, Mighty Mike and Silence come to mind. Just to be clear...here is what is generally happening; the VPN connects without a problem. The RAS server displays the connection and shows packets in and out. Some roms will not route one packet properly to the device. Others will appear to work great, pinging remote resources, but as soon as you try to do anything else, i.e. RDP, the connection crashes.
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Got my prefered VPN installed. Attempted to activate. Pop-up with "No VPN api".Sigh... With no api, this isn't going to be solved until root/custom rom, right?
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Got my prefered VPN installed. Attempted to activate. Pop-up with "No VPN api".Sigh... With no api, this isn't going to be solved until root/custom rom, right?
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it's possible the VPN api is even there, just that our user doesn't have enough privilege to access it...
so, yeah probably. something like Cisco AnyConnect Root or other flavors of rooted ones. or if Amazon gets enough requests/complaints or somehow finds the motivation to support vpn.
if that guy making xbmconfire has success getting amazon to accept his launcher screen, it's possible they would accept other developers submitting vpn support (or, usb mass storage support, lol) - I'd definitely pay money for stuff like that.
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only other stuff I found was from p[oking around in the sideloaded Settings.apk, I can open VPN under the wireless "More..."
but it immediately says "You must set a lock screen PIN or password before you can use credential storage"
if I try a numeric PIN, it crashes back a screen, as soon as I enter the 4th digit
if I try a password, it crashes, as soon as I enter the 4th character or digit.
if I try a pattern, it crashes as soon as I press "Next"
router tunnel?
had an idea that should have occurred to me long ago
a place I used to work, we used to set up permanent site-to-site VPN tunnels between offices all over the world. and it worked really well. this was with business class switch/router hardware of course.
but routers with ddrwt/openwrt/tomato/etc. are now capable of a lot of the same functions - between/amongst each other, mostly (plus in my experience, tunnels behave better if you have the exact same device on each end anyway). and support all sorts of common flavors - l2tp/ipsec, pptp, openvpn...
I have never tried any of the paid public/popular VPN host services, so I don't know if they only support direct VPN clients from single devices, or if they support site-to-site tunnels too. I imagine if some did, they would advertise so on their website.
if tunnel connection is supported by providers, that might be a workaround. (possible annoyance: all traffic from behind your router would also be on VPN, unless maybe some fancy routing glue code is applied)
another way is if someone in UK has ddwrt router and has a friend in US with ddwrt router, you could totally set up site-to-site -- this is existing functionality. of course there still probably needs routing glue on both ends (mainly, knowing most/all of the amazon services IPs used by firetv apps)
probably too much time/work/testing, but...
I want to prevent my carrier from knowing that I am using CM11's native Hotspot or Tethering features. I know that they can look at the TTL of packets or analyze the traffic (Windows Update, Steam) to detect this. I have a subscription to a VPN service, Private Internet Access, which has an app on Android. If I enable the VPN mode of this app, will all the Hotspot traffic be routed through it, completely invisible to the carrier?
Searching showed me some conflicting answers on this, with some people saying to run it on the tethered device, and others saying to run it on the phone. I am thinking running VPN on phone, as the packets should appear to originate from the phone, rather than something 1 hop behind it.
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I want to prevent my carrier from knowing that I am using CM11's native Hotspot or Tethering features. I know that they can look at the TTL of packets or analyze the traffic (Windows Update, Steam) to detect this. I have a subscription to a VPN service, Private Internet Access, which has an app on Android. If I enable the VPN mode of this app, will all the Hotspot traffic be routed through it, completely invisible to the carrier?
Searching showed me some conflicting answers on this, with some people saying to run it on the tethered device, and others saying to run it on the phone. I am thinking running VPN on phone, as the packets should appear to originate from the phone, rather than something 1 hop behind it.
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To the best of my knowledge, they could easily know that you are connecting to the VPN tunnel as it utilizes a certain ports. However if it's correctly set up and utilize a secure protocol, all your traffic will get through the VPN and your ISP won't be able to decipher your online activities and your connection type or make sense of your internet traffic.
In other words, you may be using the VPN to connect to websites A, B, and C and send all sorts of interesting information to those websites; or send email; or whatever. Your ISP can see none of that. All they can see is encrypted data that they can't decrypt. So they know you're using a VPN, but they don't know what you're using it for.
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Is there any way for the fire TV to connect to it? My university uses it, and I was wondering if I could connect, but the access point is not showing up
Can´t look now because I´m not at home but wasn´t there a setting for a manual AP setup where you could enter the SSID by yourself?
Some organizations may keep a second network available for legacy devices like printers, XBoxes, and older machines. You can check with your university's tech support to see how you can add your device to the list of allowed access for that network.
This isn't a guarantee that this network exists for you, but most enterprise and even some residential-grade equipment have this capability.
Otherwise, you might be able to find a router or range extender that can understand and connect to WPA2-Enterprise to work around this. In a pinch, an old laptop with two wifi cards or a wifi Ethernet port should suffice.
Or you may want to scrap wifi and run an Ethernet cable to your dorm's jack or personal switch.
Related topics found through Googling, but no further help:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters/comments/2sv1ov/best_option_for_college_wifi/
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/comments/2mydhh/fire_tv_stick_can_you_use_a_wireless_network_that/
Thanks the responses, but neither of them works well for me. there is a secondary unsecured wifi network, but it is just too slow to use, especially for streaming videos. I sideloaded a wifi APK onto it, and the networks DO show up, but there is no way to enter the login information (you need both a username and password.) Anyone know of an app that can do that?
I just got myself a Fritz!Box 5970 and am now setting it all up, including its VPN server.
It uses IPSec Xauth, and so far I've successfully managed to connect both my iPhone and Android (7) tablet to it. However I'm now facing trying to link my Firestick (version 3, the current retail one) to it and am having issues as of course there's no VPN functionality included by default in FireOS.
I've looked through the various apps available and all I can see are proprietary ones linked to providers servers only (IPVanish, PureVPN and suppliers like that), or an OpenVPN one which doesn't seem to support IPSec Xauth (or at least i can't get it to work).
Does anyone know a method of making such a connection, using either a sideloaded app or something directly available?