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VPN Service with UTM recommendations?

With the recent House/Senate votes to allow ISPs to sell users web traffic, and the increased interest in VPN services, I'm wondering if anyone has already stood up a VPN router or is trying out the various services on their computers?

I have been using Tunnelbear on my phone sparingly at coffee shops, etc., but have always had trouble with it connecting when on my home wifi.  I never gave it much mind before, but am curious if something in the UTM is blocking it...and if I would encounter the same thing with other VPN services.

Anyone tried NordVPN, ExpressVPN, IPVanish...etc.?

Thanks,



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  • If you use Google, shop at Amazon or Walmart or do any of dozens of other things, your life already is an open book.  In any case, if you want to encrypt all of the traffic out of your UTM and hide your IP, you will need an additional device as the UTM doesn't have the possibility of being a VPN client itself.

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • Bob -

    I understand the UTM cannot act as a client, that's not what I am trying to do.

    I have a VPN service on my phone, Tunnelbear, and was trying it out on my desktop as well, but the UTM was blocking both from connecting to their servers.  Just curious if others have tried some of the other VPN services already (ie, NordVPN), settled on oneand if it required any configurations to make them work.

    My corporate Cisco VPN works no problem through the UTM without any configuration required.  So I'm not sure why Tunnelbear would be blocked.

    Thanks.

  • I would assume the firewall is blocking it...did you make rules to allow the connection out?  Check you logs.

  • Darrell probably nailed it, but you might check #1 in Rulz.

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • I got it working with a FW rule to allow the specific NordVPN server the client was trying to connect to.

    Is there a way to specify multiple servers (hostnames, not IPs) in a FW rule? IE, Nord has a lot of servers in the US, so I'd like to create a rule that will allow the traffic to any of the US servers, not just one.

    FYI, throughput wasn't bad actually.  I installed the Win10 app, and over Wifi, on speedtest.net I was getting 60/60mbps. 

  • I'd imagine you would create the hosts as dns hosts and then add them to an availability group which you add as the destination.

  • What Louis said.

    If there are multiple IPs associated to a single FQDN, create a DNS Group definition instead of a DNS Host - I would be surprised if NordVPN did that though.

    Probably, your best bet is to allow the port you're using for NordVPN to "Any" or "Internet" instead of individual servers.

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • What Louis said.

    If there are multiple IPs associated to a single FQDN, create a DNS Group definition instead of a DNS Host - I would be surprised if NordVPN did that though.

    Probably, your best bet is to allow the port you're using for NordVPN to "Any" or "Internet" instead of individual servers.

    Cheers - Bob

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
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