[jon_adler]

I’ve got a home lab with proxmox as the hypervisor. I’m running openwrt (x86) for my household router (in a qemu VM) and I’ve got transmission running in a (lxc) container. When the transmission container boots up, it gets its IP address via DHCP (server in openwrt). I configured dhcp to allocate the same lP address to the container every time. You could also just use a static ipconfig in the container.

Within openwrt, I’ve installed WireGuard and OpenVPN for accessing different vpns.

Finally, again in openwrt, I installed the policy based routing package[1]. This package makes it super easy to route all traffic from the transmission container to the VPN network.

There are probably many ways you could do this, but this setup is great for me!

1: https://docs.openwrt.melmac.net/pbr/

[anderspitman]

Sounds like a lot of fun, and a huge time sink.

[unethical_ban]

Tldr: use OpenWRT to create a static IP reservation for a dedicated torrent instance, then use source-based routing to send traffic over a VPN running on the router.

Sounds pretty awesome. I've not dabbled with PBR on home equipment. We did use it in prior employment to force all PCI traffic over a dedicated physical network between datacenters.