Bypass openvpn for particular ip

Question

My desktop machine runs Trisquel GNU/Linux 6.0 (which is basically a libre version of Ubuntu 12.04), and I use OpenVPN to connect to a commercial VPN provider for internet access.

It currently routes all my traffic through the VPN, which is great, but I'm looking for a way to allow requests to one specific IP address to bypass the VPN. I'm sure there's a way but repeated web searching hasn't yet turned up anything (best I could find were instructions for doing this on the Cisco VPN client for Windows).

Can you help?

Thanks.

Zoredache · Answer 1 · 2013-03-13T15:02:44.720

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Simply add a route for that IP to your local gateway.

You can do this in your openvpn client config like this.

route 10.99.77.55 255.255.255.255 net_gateway

In the config net_gateway is automatically replaced with the correct address.

edited Mar 13 '13 at 15:02

answered Mar 13 '13 at 14:56

Zoredache

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score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '13 at 14:58

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ip route add to $network/$mask via $gateway

answered Mar 13 '13 at 14:58

Jeff Ferland

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '22 at 12:32

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route 10.99.77.55 255.255.255.255 net_gateway

I used this code line in ovpn config so it worked. Now I want to bypass an IP range instead of single IP, How can I do it?

something like that:

route 10.99.77.55/22 255.255.255.255 net_gateway

answered Jan 21 '22 at 12:32

M Kh

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Bypass openvpn for particular ip

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