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VPN is problematic on Fedora but just works on Ubuntu (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks

So my university wifi blocks almost all piracy and gaming related websites, and so far cloudflare warp+(not regular warp) is the only VPN that works.

I really prefer using Fedora to any other OS, but for the love of god warp+ never properly works on it. It does connect but drops the connection every few seconds so it's practically unusable. Spent a few hours scraping through the logs trying to find a solution but no good. With Ubuntu it just works, I've been using it for more than a week now and never got any issues. But I really don't like Ubuntu itself due to a bunch of reasons so I'd like to switch away if possible.

If anyone has any solutions, please let me know.

Good day!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I am not sure if this works, but it might be worth a try, see if you can install Warp+ trough a Ubuntu Distrobox instance on your Fedora system.

Again, I have no idea if this will work.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seems it does indeed work with root-level containers.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Glad I was able to help!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

My thought exactly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Use wgcf instead of the main warp app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not familiar with warp+ but having used Mullvad VPN with most distributions I'd say to see if it supports OpenVPN or Wireguard configurations. That way you can talk directly to NetworkManager or the respective vpn program.

Perhaps Fedora does not have a unique package dependency that Ubuntu has since Fedora is heavily oriented toward systemD and selinux for most system tasks that may be handled by different packages on Ubuntu/Debian distributions. Warp+ may be designed in a way that only expects a ubuntu/debian derivative distro.

I'd try consulting cloudflare customer support for more guidance and to see if they can replicate the issue on their end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://github.com/ViRb3/wgcf

just found this, seems promising!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Not related to warp, but just out of curiosity, which protocols have you tried? In one or two univs I visited, I had to switch to TCP instead UDP for it to work. Not sure why.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Not really helping here but debian testing is basically a rolling release distro and it's stable enough for a normal user.

I switched from nobara to debian because my kde plasma didn't work (the config was wrecked so it didn't work on debian too).