How to tell your VPN is active and functioning

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I have this VPS that I’m running openVPN on. I want to be able to safely torrent stuff online with the arr stack and not get in trouble with my ISP. I don’t care as much about other privacy concerns, I simply don’t want to lose my internet or end up with a cease and desist

how do I confirm the vpn is working? when I go to websites like “what is my ISP” it usually shows the IP of the sever, but once I went there and it showed an IP6 address with the IP4 of the server that pointed to my actual city and my ISP. does that mean the connection is dropping? i’m very confused about all of this as I’m very much a beginner with all of this networking stuff

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bind your torrent client to your vpn interface, your torrent client wont even work if you’re not connected to the vpn

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Great tool. Also make sure to bind to your vpns interface like the other commenter said though. I prefer qbittorrent