Discord got banned where I live. I’m trying to find a way to route Discord to a specific proxy, or in other words warpring it around a VPN. I do not want to run a VPN system wide as this will significantly decrease internet speed, and also could affect connectivity in many games. Anyone has an effective way to do this? I’m running Bazzite on my system, and I use Vesktop as the Discord client, which is a flatpak. Any help is appreciated

  • trillian@feddit.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    Did you look into network namespaces? With these you should be able to dedicate a namespace for the VPN adapter and then move discord into it, at least with wireguard it works flawlessly.

    • WIPocket@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Do you have any tool to help with that? Ive set this up in the past, but it was pretty hands-on namespacing to get it to work rootless.

      Edit: For completeness, here is a script similar to what I use.

      • trillian@feddit.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        I am not sure if this is helpful but I just created a systemd unit that sets up the network namespace in the background. Then, as I use nixos, I add the wireguard VPN to nix and with networking.wireguard.interface.name.interfaceNamespace you can then move it into the container. For running applications I cannot really comment because I have only one service making use of the VPN which runs inside a NixOS container for which the namespace can be configured with --network-namespace-path=/run/netns/…

    • joseplinux@lemmy.zipOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      If all else fails, I’ll probably end up doing just that, running discord inside a browser with a VPN extension

  • thetaT [none/use name]@hexbear.net
    1·
    1 year ago

    you can use nftables or ip route to route discord’s IP addresses through a different interface like a VPN, alternatively you could launch discord with proxychains, there’s many ways to do it