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I want firefox on my laptop to only go through a VPN and the easiest solution I came up with is forcing firefox SOCKS5 Proxy Docker Container which goes through a Mullvad gluetun docker container. I connect to my home server via tailscale

Browser < -tailscale- > SOCKS5 Docker <


gluetun Docker <


Internet

Is that a good idea? It seems a little overengineered, but simpler than running two VPNs on one machine?

Thanks

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[–] LazerDickMcCheese 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think I'm missing something...why bother with SOCKS5 if you're using a gluetun container? I've never done what you're trying to do, but I'd assume gluten by itself is the solution

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want only the firefox browser to connect to my vpn. can firefox itself just connect to a vpn?

[–] LazerDickMcCheese 1 points 1 week ago

I'd recommend something like a split tunnel then. And I'm only saying that because I'm not well-versed in networking like this, especially when containers are involved.

But I do have containers routing their traffic through a VPN via gluetun, and it's worked flawlessly.