I use VPN for anonymity and tried to also run openvpn to connect to my router at home which disconnected the initial VPN. Why can’t openvpn run on top of another vpn?
Theoretically, yes. Practically, no. Because they both need to use the same protocol that will result in routing conflicts. Use vpn with multi hops if you want more obfuscation
Running one VPN on top of another is technically possible but can be challenging due to compatibility issues, network conflicts, and potential performance and stability problems. It is generally not recommended as it can introduce complexities and may not work reliably. Exploring alternative solutions like configuring your home router with VPN capabilities or using remote access tools is often a better approach.
Yes, it is like vpn router within vpn router.
I just did this today with the Gl-Inet SlateAX. It has VPN cascading build into its firmware. I successfully accessed my home wireguard VPN, and then cascaded to a 3rd party paid VPN service from there (all within the SlateAX). The speed difference was pretty negligible.
Pretty cool!
What even is the benefit of this. I realized im doing this by accident to avoid ads mostly
Op. I feel like you should be able to run a VPN on top of a VPN but not like I believe you are doing it.
If I am right, you are trying to use 2 VPNs on the same device. Yeah. That is not going to work.
I use a VPN router with another VPN on my phone
If you want to connect to your home, who are you hiding from using first vpn? It looks like you want to be anonymous for your own vpn service. It does not make any sense. If you need two vpns really hard, connect to vpn on pc, run vm inside with nat adapter, in vm set up sencond tunnel, vm will be tunneled through two tunnels. But why?
No it’s not possible, because it doesn’t work this way. My question is why would you want to use 2 VPNs together?!
The GlInet router axt1800 let’s you do it I belive
You can actually do just this with vpn cascading. Something like a gl-iNet router like the Brume 2 would just fine.
Albeit you will have a bandwidth hit if you cascade two different protocols like openvpn and WireGuard however you could cascade two wireguard connections without much hit to your bandwidth
Source: 17+ years as a systems engineer and I write a blog about VPN for digital nomads
I was afraid that would be the answer. I was connected to public wifi but needed something off my home computer, the reason why I tried it
To add to this, from networking standpoint, the path MTU will greatly reduce because of the double overhead for encryption which can cause compatibility issues and troubleshooting those issues will be a nightmare.
Interesting idea, will give it a try.
This is what I feel to be a misconception. Unless someone’s actively pursuing you legally, then a VPN does keep you anonymous. Not to your VPN provider, but if they truly keep no logs then you’re moderately safe.
Tor is slow as all hell but will keep browsing more secure.
He doesn’t need a double VPN and not sure why he’s bothering.
Not hiding from anyone, using openvpn to connect to my own home is the easiest way to do it. I basically want to be connected to my home VPN while using wifi public connection. I guess i can just set up to have everything go through my home internet but it does make speed slower which is the reason i am not doing it this way.
I litteratly just had this question on if you can use 2 vpns and make it to where anybody wanting your ppn would need to go through 2 layers of encryption, I figured the speeds would drop low but having gig wifi would mean you could do this 4-5x before it gets unusable.
To throw a workaround at you (just because I was literally just talking about it). If you run up a Virtualbox VM on your (host) machine you can setup a VPN on that (guest) machine which will tunnel inside your existing (host machine) VPN to a new exit node. Has worked fine for me with a number of commercial VPNs.
You can get a hardware VPN and then run a software VPN on top of it.