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Description

VPN all things, is what VPN providers tell you. That is, they sell you VPN services on the assumption that you are not safe without it. This scare tactic works all too often, and the truth is that a VPN is not necessary for all connections and often gets in the way. This can make using a VPN tricky, requiring you to disable and re-enable it depending on how you use the internet. With VPN Split Tunneling you can avoid these problems by selecting which traffic you want to pass through the VPN, and which traffic you don't. You can take it a step further if you have a VPN on your router, which allows you to perform split tunneling for all devices on your network. Additionally, if you use multiple VPNs, you can split the tunnel between them and your WAN connection on your router. You can achieve all this and more with OpenWrt and the Policy Based Routing package. Watch the video to see examples of how you can create your own custom routing policy, without having to turn that VPN connection on and off.

Links

Policy Based Routing (PBR) documentation
https://docs.openwrt.melmac.net/pbr

How to set up OpenVPN on OpenWrt – Mullvad
https://mullvad.net/en/help/openwrt-routers-and-mullvad-vpn

Wireguard PBR settings on OpenWrt
https://thematrix.dev/wireguard-vpn-policy-routing-on-openwrt/

OpenWrt OpenVPN Resources
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/client-luci
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/client

Linux networking
https://www.howtogeek.com/177621/the-beginners-guide-to-iptables-the-linux-firewall/amp/

iptables/nftables tables and chains
http://linux-training.be/networking/ch14.html

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
00:25 About split tunneling
01:13 About policy-based routing
01:30 Split tunnel / PBR targets
02:03 Hardware/software
03:34 Split tunnel / PBR demo
04:34 PBR app overview
09:56 Create custom policy
14:46 Testing modified policy
16:24 Off

Attributions

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Labels

#vpn #homenetwork #router #openwrt #raspberrypi #cm4 #wireguard #wg #openvpn #splittunneling

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