Needed Software:
- proxychains
- tor
Install Software
- Arch:
pacman -S tor proxychains
- Debian / Ubuntu:
apt install tor proxychains
Configure:
Check tor status
systemctl status tor
should show something like the below. if active is shown everything is good and tor is running
configure proxychains:
#vim /etc/proxychains.conf
Remove the # from
- dynamic_chain
- strict_chain
- random_chain
- proxy_dns
add / edit at the end of file
- socks4 >127.0.0.1 9050
- socks5 >127.0.0.1 9050
Testing:
Close all instances of Firefox
Start Firefox with the following command
# proxychains firefox https://www.whatismyip.com
This will start Firefox connectiong to whatismyip.com and you can check that your exit is in some other country. 😉 Netherlands is definitly not my country 😉