Extremely slow sys-vpn on other appVMs

[diana1]

I use a template for the vpn, and within the template the connection works perfectly, however when I use the template as NetVM in other appVMs, the connection is super slow, but not only slow, but it doesn’t even load any pages. I use OpenVPN with VPNBook

[apparatus]

Maybe it’s an issue with MTU.
You can try to add this firewall rule in your sys-vpn and check if this will help:

Wireguard VPN setup

Good news, with fedora-38 the network manager supports Wireguard out of the box! The only thing required are extra firewall rules in the VPN qube, as explained in the community documentation about VPN. What you’ll need This guide assumes you are using a VPN service that has wireguard support, most of them do, but you can also add your own if you have a server. ProtonVPN has a free plan, it has limits but gives you a fully working VPN and they support WireGuard. This pro…

[diana1]

@Wireguard VPN setup

nft add rule ip qubes custom-forward tcp flags syn / syn,rst tcp option maxseg size set rt mtu

It is probable. But when I add the rule in the sys-vpn config file ( /rw/config/qubes-firewall-user-script), the connection to other AppVMs still does not work, duckduckgo or any page does not load. The pages only load on the sys-vpn machine, but not on other machines.

[diana1]

Now that I realize, it also doesn’t load anything on other VMs when I disable the VPN in the networkmanager.

[diana1]

I solved it, it works for me with proton vpn x2