How to Fix: VPN Disconnect While Torrenting (Exposes IP) For the purpose of this article I will focus on the Qbittorrent client. Qbittorrent (which is a free torrent client) allows you to specify a virtual adapter as its communication port, though other torrent clients may also offer the same feature.
Your real IP address is hidden to the outside world. Which effectively re-routes traffic through the physical adapter. Most (if not all) VPN services use a virtual network adapter to connect to the VPN, The best way to prevent your real IP from being seen if your VPN disconnects is to use a torrent client that will only listen on a virtual network adapter that the VPN uses, rather than your physical network adapter. I spent some time researching this issue. This is a big problem because I wish to remain anonymous when torrenting.
The problem is that sometimes I lose connection to my VPN service, and then my torrent client exposes my IP address to the rest of the world. To hide my IP address while torrenting, I use a VPN service. I use torrents to download files on the Internet.