Written in Python with Tkinter, this app will allow you to connect to a chosen IpVanish server in most linux distributions.
Since no linux client/app exists for IpVanish, currently, the only way to connect to a server is by downloading the ovpn configuration files, and connecting either through Network Manager or directly by setting up an OpenVPN connection.
These connections have to be created and removed (SIGINT, since there is no other way) for every server in every location which the user wishes to use. Both servers and nations are plenty, and this results in being an extremely tedious process. Hence, this app was created, so that connecting in most linux distributions is much easier.
Since Tkinter was used, the interface is fairly basic and was only implemented to simplify the connection process (i.e. without any bells-and-whistles).
Start the app through a terminal, for instance python3 ipvanish.py, and download the necessary configuration files in the Configs tab first.
Once download has completed, enter your credentials and your sudo password in the credentials tab, and store both.
Pick a city or nation by clicking on a tab, and click on Connect.
Wait a second, and a connection should be established.
You can then click Disconnect to disconnect from your current connection.
The app works by using the subprocess module to create an OpenVPN connection through terminal commands.
As such, it requires the user to acquire superuser privileges by entering and storing the system's sudo password in the Credentials tab. The password will need to be entered every time the app starts, as it is not stored.
The systemd-resolved service is then used to set dns and various other options. Again, this requires administrative privileges.
Finally, sysctl.conf will be accessed to set/unset variable net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6.
These steps have been taken in order to prevent dns requests from leaking. Visit dnscheck.tools to double-check.
OpenVPN and systemd-resolved should be installed on your linux system.
The tabs module iterates through the system's network interfaces. Most commonly, these are named eth, wlan etc...
The VPN interface should be named 'tun0'.
If problems occurr, it is likely due to these settings. Please raise an issue should this be the case.
add to PATH, i.e.:
mv ipvanish.py ipvanish
chmod +rwx ipvanish
sudo mousepad ~/.bashrc (zshrc, or your shell)
add:
export PATH=$PATH:~/Desktop/IPVanish-Client/
terminal command:
source ~/.bashrc (zshrc, or your shell)
now you can launch from terminal with:
ipvanish
Requirements:
OpenVPN, i.e. (if not root):
sudo apt-get install openvpn
Systemd-resolved
sudo apt-get install systemd-resolved
Image TK Module
sudo apt-get install python3-pil python3-pil.imagetk
Tk Package
sudo apt-get install python3-tk
All python packages are standard library.