Hi,
I’m trying to set up a cacher using this guide: shaker/cacher at main · unman/shaker · GitHub. I’m confused about whether to set the netvm to a VPN or sys-whonix. For those who have used the cacher, what do you recommend for the netvm?
Thanks!
Hi. You can set the netvm to whatever best suits your use case.
I dont use whonix, but I do route traffic over Tor.
The choice is entirely up to you.
I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.
Hello,
Thank you for your response.
Do you have Tor running within the cacher, or is sys-whonix the only netvm you are using?
I came across this discussion: sys-cacher questions · Issue #122 · ben-grande/qusal · GitHub, where @ben-grade recommended against using sys-whonix as a netvm or running Tor inside it. What do you think?
I’m not a believer in mixing up things, so I wouldn’t run Tor in a cacher
qube.
I dont use Whonix, but I do run Tor proxies.
I place cacher downstream from a Tor proxy.
I dont see why you wouldn’t place cacher downstream from sys-whonix. This
looks wrong to me.
You can no longer run Tor over Tor, so you cant have any repo definitions
that use tor+https - you’d need to amend them just like you amend any
definitions that use https://.
Something like this would work in these cases:
sed -i s^tor+https://^http://HTTPS///^ REPO_DEFINITION
or
sed -i s^tor+http://^http://^ REPO_DEFINITION
Placing the caching proxy depends entirely on your needs.
Need to use Tor? Set the netvm as sys-whonix.
Need to use a VPN? Set the netvm to the VPN proxy.
Need both? i think you’ll see where this is going.
Need neither? Just set netvm as sys-firewall.