[question] VPN + ad blocking proxy in a KVM container

3 points · submitted Mar 2020 by u/Gendalph

Greetings, fellow Linux gurus!

I'm looking into setting up a sort of All-in-One KVM VM for a number of uses:

VPN for backups (rsync) and inter-connection between a server or two, Mikrotik routers and end-user devices.
End-user devices include phones. Which is why I'm considering adding an ad blocking capability specifically for them.

Are there any good solutions for this? I think pfSense ticks all the boxes, except, maybe ability to connect Mikrotik devices. Also, some phones for godforsaken reason lose IPSec-IKEv1 connections and haven't pulled the upstream fix in yet (hello, Xiaomi!), so support for IKEv2 is on the wish list.

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[deleted] 3 points · Mar 2020

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Gendalph [OP] 1 points · Mar 2020

This is going to be a VM, so it's going to be self-contained and I can install whatever, however, there's no support for WireGuard in RouterOS as of yet, so I'd prefer to use something else for now.

Thanks for telling me of dnscrypt-proxy though!

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[deleted] 1 points · Mar 2020

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Gendalph [OP] 1 points · Mar 2020

Mikrotik devices run on RouterOS. They can be technically flashed to OpenWRT, but I'm not willing to go to such lengths yet.

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orev 1 points · Mar 2020

FYI, containers and VMs are vastly different things.

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Gendalph [OP] 1 points · Mar 2020

...which I am aware of. Also not all virtualization is the same, so I specified what I'm going to use for this particular application - a KVM VM (which in HVM mode uses Qemu, which is perfect in this case).

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