Mullvad will drop OpenVPN support

by jrnkntlon 11/9/2024, 8:30 PMwith 7 comments

by serfon 11/9/2024, 9:02 PM

so long and thanks for all the fish.

I love wireguard and the configuration methods compared to openvpn.

by big-green-manon 11/9/2024, 9:14 PM

This is a good decision all things considered, but there are plenty of hardware vendors with proprietary firmware that only support ovpn and now mullvad is unusable for them. I suppose the onus is on them to support wireguard, but still think of how long it took python3 to become standard after it was released, I hope to see wireguard become the standard soon but I expect lots of vendors will take their time on the transition.

by jauntywundrkindon 11/9/2024, 10:15 PM

Never been a Mullvad user, but namespaced-openvpn (https://github.com/slingamn/namespaced-openvpn) was one of the only ways to torrent-over-proxies that I found (years ago); user namespace with the torrent client & openvpn as it's only link out.

Not sure what else folks do for this use case.