Dear Everyone I am currently using openvpn for normal browsing. However, I have the following services running: a bit torrent client, a web server, IRC and a git server which I would really want it to not be using my vpn connection (and use my original connection instead).
Is there a way to do this? I looked up policy routing and I can't really find any tutorial on how to do this on linux (I am on ubuntu). I don't want the solution to be incredibly complicated – I am pretty new to networking in ubuntu and I only want a very simple solution to this problem.
Can someone help me out?
Best Answer
Unfortunately policy routing IS incredibly complicated. I have an open question asking about tools to make policy/tc easier to use, and I haven't seen any great answers yet. I have started working on something on my own, but isn't ready to share, and wouldn't be to useful in the case of a VPN.
The guide to start with is the LARTC HOWTO, but I don't believe it has any examples about how to create policies when a VPN is installed. Really though the fact that you are a using a VPN shouldn't matter. When OpenVPN is connected it just shows up as another network interface.