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Mullvad will drop OpenVPN support

by jrnkntl on 11/9/24, 8:30 PM with 7 comments

• by serf on 11/9/24, 9:02 PM

  so long and thanks for all the fish.

  I love wireguard and the configuration methods compared to openvpn.

• by big-green-man on 11/9/24, 9:14 PM

  This is a good decision all things considered, but there are plenty of hardware vendors with proprietary firmware that only support ovpn and now mullvad is unusable for them. I suppose the onus is on them to support wireguard, but still think of how long it took python3 to become standard after it was released, I hope to see wireguard become the standard soon but I expect lots of vendors will take their time on the transition.

• by jauntywundrkind on 11/9/24, 10:15 PM

  Never been a Mullvad user, but namespaced-openvpn (https://github.com/slingamn/namespaced-openvpn) was one of the only ways to torrent-over-proxies that I found (years ago); user namespace with the torrent client & openvpn as it's only link out.

  Not sure what else folks do for this use case.