Before you start following article you need setup TUVPN OpenVPN client. You can find the guide in our tutorials section.

You will first need to install VPNcheck. You can get a free version from this link.

1. Install the VPNcheck.
2. Click on the Config button as seen on following screenshot:

   

    

3. Select the application you want to protect (so the one you want to be closed if your VPN connection goes down). Click on Add file button and select for example Firefox:

   
   
    

4. There are two check boxes Close and Autorun mark them both and close the window:

   

    

5. Activate your VPN session by using TUVPN OpenVPN client. You will see the green icon once you are connected. VPNcheck is monitoring it. Now you can start using Firefox:

   

    

6. Right click on the OpenVPN icon and disconnect your VPN. Once it is disconnected your selected application, Firefox in our example, will close automatically, so no browsing without VPN!

   

    

7. Release your network by clicking Cycle IP: Network button. Now you can re connect through your OpenVPN client:

   

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Before you start following this article you need setup a PPTP or L2TP connection so Lifeguard can automatically get the connection credentials.

You will first need to install VPN Lifeguard. You can get a free version of this software from here.

1. Install VPN Lifeguard.

2. Click on the Config button as seen here:

3.    3. Click on Number Dropdown list, select “1” and then click the Browse button to select the application you want to protect (so the one you want to be closed if your VPN connection goes down):

4.     4. Close the window:

5.    5. Select the PPTP or L2TP connection name that you have created previously and click the Start button to establish the VPN session:

6.    6. You will get confirmation that a connection to TUVPN has been established and the applications that you added in step 3 will also be automatically started:

7.   7. Stop button will disconnect your VPN session and it will also close your selected applications:

And that should be it. Your desired applications will be easily protected in case your VPN connection goes down!

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With the recent release of our SSH2 Tunnel technology, TUVPN is again breaking ground in the VPN industry with a new and extremely versatile tool at the disposal of our users.

In our Tutorials section, you can find all you need to get started with our SSH2 Tunnels. Firefox is the example application that we configure in our tutorials to use the SSH2 Tunnel. Let's see now how you would configure other popular applications to use our newest technology. We will configure Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, Skype and Filezilla.

Remember that before configuring any given application to use the tunnel you need to have it up&running!:

Windows SSH2 Tunnel Configuration

Ubuntu SSH2 Tunnel Configuration

Google Chrome

We go to Options:

Under the Hood option and Change Proxy Settings:

Select Connection tab and click on the LAN Settings on Local area network window click on Advanced:

Socks localhost and port 7070:

Go to an IP identification site (e.g. www.whatismyipaddress.com ) where you can see that your IP is now a TUVPN server IP in an entirely new location….and probably a new country!

Internet Explorer

We go to Internet Options:

Select Connection tab and click on  LAN Settings:

In Local Area Network window click on Advanced…, On Proxy Settings window we enter socks Localhost and port 7070 click OK:

Go to an IP identification site (e.g. www.whatismyipaddress.com ) where you can see that your IP is now a TUVPN server IP in an entirely new location….and probably a new country!

Opera

We go to Settings then Preferences:

Select Advanced tab and go to Network on the left menu.  Click on Proxy Servers button:

Check the Socks checkbox and enter 127.0.0.1 and port 7070. Click OK:

Go to an IP identification site (e.g. www.whatismyipaddress.com ) where you can see that your IP is now a TUVPN server IP in an entirely new location….and probably a new country!

Mozilla Firefox

We go to Tools and then Options:

Go to Advanced and then select the Network tab and click on Settings button:

Select Manual proxy configuration and then select Socks v5. Now we enter Socks host 127.0.0.1 and port 7070 and click OK:

Go to an IP identification site (e.g. www.whatismyipaddress.com ) where you can see that your IP is now a TUVPN server IP in an entirely new location….and probably a new country!

Skype

We go to Tools and Options:

Go to Advanced tab and click on Connection, then we select Socks5 from drop down list, for host localhost and for port 7070. We click Save and restart skype to be connected through out SSH2 tunnel:

Filezilla

We go to Settings:

The go to Generic proxy, select Socks 5 and enter into Proxy host 127.0.0.1 and Port 7070.  Click OK:

When you connect to any FTP host, check the status window and you will see that it is now routing your traffic through the proxy you have defined and so the SSH2 Tunnel:

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As promised after starting the deployment of SSH2 Tunnelling throughout our network, we will be creating new tutorials beyond the initial Windows 7 SSH2 Tunnel one.

Here we will focus on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal but the process should be fairly similar with older releases of Ubuntu or even other Linux distributions for which the SSH2 package that we are using is available.

So let's get started!

First of all we install the gstm package (SSH tunnel manager for GNOME) through Ubuntu Software Center. This will be the software that we will use to setup the SSH2 tunnel.

Once installed we execute it and click the Add button to create a new SSH tunnel configuration. We name it i.e. TUVPN SSH2 Tunnel:

Now we need to input the Tunnel Properties.

In the Login area, we enter our TUVPN VPN Username.

In Host, the server that we want to establish the SSH2 Tunnel with, in this example erfurt.tuvpn.com.

And finally in Port we enter 61.

Without leaving the Tunnel Properties window, we now setup the Port Redirection, the true differentiator of a SSH2 Tunnel from a Typical VPN.

We click on the Add button and as redirection Type we choose Dynamic and as Port 7070.

This will basically configure our computer to listen on port 7070 locally and send any connection to this local port to our remote server (in this case Erfurt) through the encrypted SSH2 tunnel:

And we are done with Tunnel Properties window. It should look like this and we can click OK:

And we can already Start our SSH2 Tunnel! We will have to input our TUVPN VPN password:

If all goes fine the TUVPN SSH2 Tunnel will change to green:

And now nothing happens! As explained in this previous post about the differences between VPNs, SSH2 Tunnels and Proxies, all our applications will continue to access Internet through our normal Internet connection unless we configure them to use our newly created SSH2 Tunnel.

Don't worry, it is very easy! We just need to make sure that the application that we want to use through the SSH2 Tunnel support the use of SOCKS Proxies. Many do, we will publish a list soon.

As an example here we will configure Firefox to use our just established SSH2 Tunnel to the Erfurt server.

In Firefox, we just need to go to Edit -> Prefereces. Click on the Advanced tab, then Network subtab and configure the Connection Settings like this:

As we can see, we configure Firefox to use as SOCKS Host our own computer (localhost) on port 7070. So now, when we browse Internet with Firefox, our data will go through the SSH2 Tunnel to Erfurt server and reach Internet from there. Let's check it on http://whatismyipaddress.com/:

But hey, what happens if my SSH2 Tunnel goes down? Will any Firefox data reach Internet through my normal Internet connection?

No way! SSH2 Tunnels guarantee by design that if the SSH2 Tunnel goes down, no data from the applications that you have configured to use the tunnel will ever reach Internet until the tunnel is up.

This, along the fact that only applications that you configure will actually use the tunnel, are very interesting features of SSH2 Tunnels and those that take them apart from other VPN technologies and give them an extreme flexibility of use.

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As we keep adding more features to our VPN accounts (and as usual, without any extra cost to you!), and to make things as simple as possible for our VPN users, we have come up with a Getting Started Guide for our VPN services.

Here we have summarised all options that you have when using your TUVPN account.

You want to go quick and easy? No problem. Follow the Fast Track procedure and you will be up and running in seconds, with a premium OpenVPN connection preconfigured with all VPN servers in our network so you just need to right click and connect to get the best vpn going!.

Or if you want to uncover all features of your VPN account, move on into the In-Depth section and find out why TUVPN is the most complete VPN provider out there!.

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After our previous very successful post about L2TP/IPSec on Ubuntu 11.04, we will cover another topic not easy to find clearly explained. How to configure and use OpenVPN on iPhone with Guizmovpn.

Note: This process will only work with a Jailbroken iPhone and there is a registration fee of 4.99€ to use Guizmovpn (you can test it for free during 7 days).

First of all we need to install Guizmovpn via Cydia. This is perfectly explained in Guizmovpn site, so just follow these easy steps.

Once we have it installed, we start the configuration process.

First we execute Guizmovpn:

We click on Download new configuration and we choose Other in the VPN providers list:

Now we type the URL from which we will download TUVPN's Guizmovpn configuration and click Yes when asked to download:

www.tuvpn.com/downloads/tuvpn_guizmovpn.zip

That's it! TUVPN should now appear under the configurations list:

Select it an click on the OFF button to start the connection process. You will be asked for your TUVPN VPN Username and Password that were sent to you in your Service Activation email. Click Save and credentials will be stored in your iPhone:

And you are now connected to TUVPN!. You will see it with the Guizmovpn icon on the top bar next to your battery icon:

But, let's check it with whatsmyipaddress.com! :

So you see that we are connected to our Erfurt (Germany) server.

You can very easily change the server you want to connect to. From the main Guizmovpn screen, click on the arrow next to the tuvpn_guizmovpn configuration. And then you will see two tabs at the bottom: Settings and Editor. Choose Editor:

You will get to OpenVPN configuration file. Simply change the vpn server name to the desired VPN Server that you want to connect and click Save. Next time you connect you will be doing it to the new server!

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Our list of tutorials is getting pretty long and we keep adding to it!

We have just published a new tutorial on how to configure an L2TP/IPSec connection on MAC OSX 10.5. You will see it is a pretty straight-forward process.

L2TP/IPSec provides enhanced security compared to PPTP, so if you are using PPTP on your MAC we encourage you to check L2TP and switch over.

L2TP/IPSec will work with shared IPs and with your dedicated uk vpn, usa vpn … Enjoy this new and fast vpn protocol!

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We are going to cover a much awaited topic for our Linux users and something that we haven't seen explained in any other VPN sites: How to easily install and run L2TP/IPSec VPN on Ubuntu 11.04.

We will be using Werner Jaeger l2tp-ipsec-vpn software.

First we install l2tp-ipsec-vpn from a terminal window and reboot the computer so all changes are applied:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:werner-jaeger/ppa-werner-vpn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install l2tp-ipsec-vpn
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
sudo shutdown -r now 

The gsettings line is to allow the systray L2TP/IPSec configuration/connection icon to appear on System Tray (just necessary for default Ubuntu Natty Narwhal desktop manager, Unity). More info here.

Now we should have a new icon in the System Tray area showing two computers. This is the L2tp IPSec VPN icon.

We right click on it, choose Edit Connections.

We add a new connection named i.e. TUVPN_L2TP_IPSec.

We configure first Tab IPSec as follows:

So we just need to type the desired VPN server we want to connect to and the pre-shared key where we type 'tuvpn' without the quotes.

The L2TP Tab we leave it as it is, no change.

Finally on the PPP Tab we click on Allow these protocols and we mark Microsoft CHAP Version 2. We also enter our VPN username and password:

We don't change any other settings. We are ready to go!

So now we go back to the L2tp IPSec VPN icon, we choose the newly created L2TP connexion and that's it:

You should now be connected to TUVPN.COM via L2TP/IPSEC from your Ubuntu 11.04!:

And enjoy the best vpn service you will find on the net! Remember that L2TPIPsec will also work with our Dedicated IP service so you can also get your uk vpn or usa vpn working with L2TP!

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We have finally completed the long awaited Android 2.2 PPTP VPN Tutorial. Sorry for the delay but we are really busy (guess that this is good for us! ).

There were plenty of customers already using TUVPN on Android terminals (pretty easy to setup), but we wanted to give some more formal support to it.

This tutorial is for PPTP VPN. We will prepare a new one for OpenVPN over Android as soon as possible.

This tutorial has been prepared, thanks to one of our very kind customers!, on a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

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