VPN is problematic on Fedora but just works on Ubuntu
VPN is problematic on Fedora but just works on Ubuntu
Hey folks
So my university wifi blocks almost all piracy and gaming related websites, and so far cloudflare warp+(not regular warp) is the only VPN that works.
I really prefer using Fedora to any other OS, but for the love of god warp+ never properly works on it. It does connect but drops the connection every few seconds so it's practically unusable. Spent a few hours scraping through the logs trying to find a solution but no good. With Ubuntu it just works, I've been using it for more than a week now and never got any issues. But I really don't like Ubuntu itself due to a bunch of reasons so I'd like to switch away if possible.
If anyone has any solutions, please let me know.
Good day!
I am not sure if this works, but it might be worth a try, see if you can install Warp+ trough a Ubuntu Distrobox instance on your Fedora system.
Again, I have no idea if this will work.
20Seems it does indeed work with root-level containers.
Thanks!
21Glad I was able to help!
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My thought exactly
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Use wgcf instead of the main warp app.
8Thank you!
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I'm not familiar with warp+ but having used Mullvad VPN with most distributions I'd say to see if it supports OpenVPN or Wireguard configurations. That way you can talk directly to NetworkManager or the respective vpn program.
Perhaps Fedora does not have a unique package dependency that Ubuntu has since Fedora is heavily oriented toward systemD and selinux for most system tasks that may be handled by different packages on Ubuntu/Debian distributions. Warp+ may be designed in a way that only expects a ubuntu/debian derivative distro.
I'd try consulting cloudflare customer support for more guidance and to see if they can replicate the issue on their end.
4just found this, seems promising!
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Not related to warp, but just out of curiosity, which protocols have you tried? In one or two univs I visited, I had to switch to TCP instead UDP for it to work. Not sure why.
3Not really helping here but debian testing is basically a rolling release distro and it's stable enough for a normal user.
I switched from nobara to debian because my kde plasma didn't work (the config was wrecked so it didn't work on debian too).
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