Found this awesome container that has Transmission with VPN support which I can use with Windscribe VPN.
Docker Hub Link – https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/
Run command:
docker run \ --name somename\ --restart=always \ --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \ --device=/dev/net/tun \ -d \ -v localdir:/data:z \ -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \ --log-driver json-file \ --log-opt max-size=10m \ -p localport:9091 \ --dns 8.8.8.8 --dns 8.8.4.4 \ -e "OPENVPN_PROVIDER=WINDSCRIBE" \ -e "OPENVPN_USERNAME=user" \ -e "OPENVPN_PASSWORD=pass" \ -e "OPENVPN_CONFIG=US-East-tcp" \ -e "LOCAL_NETWORK=iprange" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_WEB_UI=combustion" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_RPC_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_RPC_PASSWORD=rpc_pass" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_RPC_USERNAME=rpc_user" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SCRIPT_TORRENT_DONE_ENABLED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SCRIPT_TORRENT_DONE_FILENAME=somescript" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SPEED_LIMIT_UP=1" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SPEED_LIMIT_UP_ENABLED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SEED_QUEUE_ENABLED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SEED_QUEUE_SIZE=1" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_QUEUE_ENABLED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_QUEUE_SIZE=10" \ haugene/transmission-openvpn
Things to keep in mind:
- I had to use dns parameters with Google DNS because my Docker container was not able to resolve any domains. You may not need it
- user name and password is different from the ones you use to login to Windscribe site. Get these from here: https://windscribe.com/getconfig/openvpn
- iprange is something like 192.168.0.0/24 depending upon your local area network
- SELinux will cause issues. So, use following code to set an SELinux policy
cat << EOF > docker-openvpn.te
module docker-openvpn 1.0;
require {
type svirt_lxc_net_t;
class tun_socket create;
}
#============= svirt_lxc_net_t ==============
allow svirt_lxc_net_t self:tun_socket create;
EOF
checkmodule -M -m -o docker-openvpn.mod docker-openvpn.te
semodule_package -o docker-openvpn.pp -m docker-openvpn.mod
semodule -i docker-openvpn.pp
- All the “-e” options that start with TRANSMISSION are Optional but I find those useful to set
- Use rpc_user / rpc_pass if you want to have transmission use a user for login
- somescript is a post-download script you want to execute
- Set the Upload speed and queue size
- Set the Download queue size
Additionally, I discovered that by default this container will use Port 1194 to connect to Windscribe. I prefer to use 443. There are many ways you can override the port and here’s how I preferred to do it.
I downloaded the OVPN file from Windscribe using link: https://windscribe.com/getconfig/openvpn
Then modified the OVPN file to add “/config/openvpn-credentials.txt” at the end of the line that starts with “auth-user-pass”. The file referenced will be automatically created by the container with Windscribe user/pass values you provide in the Run script. Then OpenVPN can use this auth information and seamlessly connect to Windscribe.
client dev tun proto tcp remote us-east.windscribe.com 443 nobind auth-user-pass /config/openvpn-credentials.txt reneg-sec 432000 resolv-retry infinite : :
Thereafter, modified the Run script to use a CUSTOM provider and also mapped the location of OVPN file to /etc/openvpn/custom/default.ovpn.
docker run \ --name somename\ --restart=always \ --cap-add=NET_ADMIN \ --device=/dev/net/tun \ -d \ -v localdir:/data:z \ -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \ -v localdir/Windscribe-US-East.ovpn:/etc/openvpn/custom/default.ovpn:Z \ --log-driver json-file \ --log-opt max-size=10m \ -p localport:9091 \ --dns 8.8.8.8 --dns 8.8.4.4 \ -e "OPENVPN_PROVIDER=CUSTOM" \ -e "OPENVPN_USERNAME=user" \ -e "OPENVPN_PASSWORD=pass" \ -e "LOCAL_NETWORK=iprange" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_WEB_UI=combustion" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_RPC_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_RPC_PASSWORD=rpc_pass" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_RPC_USERNAME=rpc_user" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SCRIPT_TORRENT_DONE_ENABLED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SCRIPT_TORRENT_DONE_FILENAME=somscript" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SPEED_LIMIT_UP=1" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SPEED_LIMIT_UP_ENABLED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SEED_QUEUE_ENABLED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_SEED_QUEUE_SIZE=1" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_QUEUE_ENABLED=true" \ -e "TRANSMISSION_DOWNLOAD_QUEUE_SIZE=10" \ -e "ENABLE_UFW=false" \ haugene/transmission-openvpn
Notice that this does not have “OPENVPN_CONFIG” variable set. This is because we are overriding OpenVPN default config file.
Fire up your container, and you are all set!