Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400
"Matt Price" <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet
> traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip addresses/ranges from
> the vpn.
>
> my situation is as follows: I work mostly from home and rely on the
> university's vpn to be able to access online journals. ths works
> fine., but when I'm connected to the vpn I can't send mail from my
> home email account (postfix doesn't work properly). I'm wondering
> whether I could contact my smtp host from outside of the vpn somehow.
>
> has anyone tried this and/or any suggestions?
This sounds like you don't have your routing setup properly. I use a
vpn regularly for work and only traffic going to their range of ip
addresses goes through the vpn.
What does "route -n" show on your computer? And how do you connect to
the internet?
Jacob
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