Binding to QBittorent on Mac - What are these network adapters? Which one?

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Trying to bind QBittorent to ProtonVPN on Mac… Nothing seems to scream ‘protonVPN network adapter’ here. All other posts I’ve seen usually have the VPN client listed. Any guesses as to which one is correct?

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In Terminal on Mac OS, while connected to your VPN, type in “ifconfig | grep -A 2 utun“ in to Terminal and look for the network adapter that has an IP address in it (probably towards the bottom). That’ll be the one to choose.

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Hijacking a bit to ask: What is the purpose of ‘binding’ to QBittorent (i’m on windows)?

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Depends on which protocol you are using. I don’t have a Mac with ProtonVPN here right now, but if you post the available options I can tell you which one is the probably the right one.

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From what I’ve been reading, it’s to ensure that QBittorent is going through the VPN exclusively. I’m not 100% sure if it was because in some instances, it could still leak info even if Kill Switch was enabled? So far, I have just been relying on Kill Switch to work as intended. Again, not 100% so hopefully someone can chime in here for ya.

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Recently I have been on IKEv2… Depending on where I am, sometimes I’ll switch to OpenVPN TCP as it would connect better…

Not sure if that’s what you were asking for though. I think that’s what you meant. Thanks!

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If you’re using IKEv2, then it should be ipsec0.

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I meant the available options in qBittorrent, I’m not sure how the interfaces are called on macOS.

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u/protonvpn - would you happen to know the other ones such as wire guard or the openvpn ones etc as well since they’re not easily identifiable on the Mac end? TY!

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What about WireGuard? :slight_smile:

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Upon consulting with our devs, we can say that the interface used for the different protocols can vary depending on the configuration of each user’s machine.

The best way to find out is to go in Network Preferences and note the connected IP of the active Proton VPN connection.

Then go into terminal and type ifconfig , and look for that IP address in the list of interfaces that appears. The one that uses the same IP address is the corresponding interface.