Question VPN with persistent adapter

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Does anyone know of a/any VPN with a persistent adapter? By that I mean a VPN WG/OpenVPN connection adapter that does not delete itself upon disconnection and then recreate itself when you reconnect. That can be very frustration. With IVPN, for example, you can have 100 adapter names; IVPN1, IVPN2, IVPN3, etc. That can lead to issues with Windows' firewall rules based on connection types, since the connection profile resets every time the adapter gets renamed. Windows' scheduler tasks, where a task is only supposed to run when a certain connection is active, is also effected by this.

The only VPNs I know that has a tap adapter that does not erase itself or get renamed is Mullvad and AirVPN. Anyone know of any others?
 
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boughouri said:
AzireVPN keeps a persistent WireGuard adapter. Use the official WireGuard client with a manual config from any provider that supports it.
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In that case, isn't it the client that keeps the adapter and not the VPN? That confuses me. IVPN, for example, uses the official WG client and they do not have a persistent adapter.
 
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n8chavez said:
Does anyone know of a/any VPN with a persistent adapter? By that I mean a VPN WG/OpenVPN connection adapter that does not delete itself upon disconnection and then recreate itself when you reconnect. That can be very frustration. With IVPN, for example, you can have 100 adapter names; IVPN1, IVPN2, IVPN3, etc. That can lead to issues with Windows' firewall rules based on connection types, since the connection profile resets every time the adapter gets renamed. Windows' scheduler tasks, where a task is only supposed to run when a certain connection is active, is also effected by this.

The only VPNs I know that has a tap adapter that does not erase itself or get renamed is Mullvad and AirVPN. Anyone know of any others?
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ProtonVPN has become very stable and persistent. Tho still on beta an assuming stable release get rolled out. I’ve no need to try other versions on brands I’m so happy with development.
 
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sophiakaile said:
then what about ProtonVPN
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Proton does not use an adapter that does not disappear of get renamed. It does so after every reconnection, much like IVPN. It gets recreated every reconnect using the same name, but that process of deleting the name and recreating it prevents Windows firewall connection profile types from functioning.
 
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Zero Knowledge said:
If you need a custom client with persistent tap then maybe pay someone to do one for you? Drastic and costly but if you know what you want then go for it.
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Thanks for you interest, but I'm not sure you understand my interests here. You're last few posts seem to indicated that you haven't read the thread. There already are VPNs that offer an adapter that is permanent and that do not get renames. I mentioned one, Mullvad. This has nothing to do with self-hosting a VPS or having custom-built clients. Again, there are VPNs out there that fit my requirements. I'm just wanting to know if there are others that I do not know about.
 
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n8chavez said:
Thanks for you interest, but I'm not sure you understand my interests here. You're last few posts seem to indicated that you haven't read the thread. There already are VPNs that offer an adapter that is permanent and that do not get renames. I mentioned one, Mullvad. This has nothing to do with self-hosting a VPS or having custom-built clients. Again, there are VPNs out there that fit my requirements. I'm just wanting to know if there are others that I do not know about.
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since you mentioned mullvad, chatgpt suggested I run Unbound on my linux box with mullvad, but we had issues getting the Unbound config optimally tweaked. Sorry if off-topic, or perhaps some useful info in there... :unsure:
 
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simmerskool said:
since you mentioned mullvad, chatgpt suggested I run Unbound on my linux box with mullvad, but we had issues getting the Unbound config optimally tweaked. Sorry if off-topic, or perhaps some useful info in there... :unsure:
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Forgive me, I'm not too educated with Unbound. It's a DNS resolver, right? Why is that needed? Mullvad has its own DNS servers.
 
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Forgive me, I'm not too educated with Unbound. It's a DNS resolver, right? Why is that needed? Mullvad has its own DNS servers.
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Unbound is program that can act as a recursive DNS resolver. Instead of relying on a third party dns provider like cloudflare, quad9, google, adguard, people can use Unbound to resolve DNS queries on their own hardware. Some people do it for privacy reasons but it's usually slower than using a fast third-party provider. Unbound is not the only one but it's probably the most popular one. I don't know if @simmerskool uses it or not.
 
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n8chavez said:
Forgive me, I'm not too educated with Unbound. It's a DNS resolver, right? Why is that needed? Mullvad has its own DNS servers.
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mostly like I am less educated than you on Unbound -- chatGPT suggested it to harden harder my linux. but we had an issue with the config xref mullvad that chatgpt was not expecting and could not resolve, so I uninstalled Unbound until next time... :rolleyes:
 
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