I often work remotely. I use the Network Manager to set up my VPN connection, which has worked pretty well. The VPN I have set up currently using the Password with Certificates (TLS) type. What I want to do is only route certain traffic through the VPN, and all other traffic over the normal local internet connection.
Is this possible?
Just to help explain my situation I will give an example of the type of connections I usually have to make with the VPN network. We have an "intranet" web site set up on our work network, so this web site is only accessible to me when I use VPN, but is accessed the same way I access other sites, like Google or askubuntu.com. I often connect to a desktop computer over the VPN connection via remote desktop, where I enter the name )IP Address) of the desktop computer, username, and password. I connect to a MySQL server using MySQL Workbench, where you enter an IP address, username and password. I often connect to linux servers using SSH.
For all of the above connections I need the VPN. However I also do some normal web surfing, as well as connecting to resources outside of the work network (Gmail, Stack Overflow, Gaming, etc.). For these connections I wish not to access via the VPN connection because these connections do not need my VPN, the VPN just makes this much slower.
I have tried the technique describe in this link: http://darrenwatt.com/split-tunnel-ubuntu/
This did not seem to work for me. Specifically, I couldn't connect to the "intranet" site after checking the "Use this connection only for resource on its network" check box and connection the VPN.
Does anyone know how I can selectively route traffic through the VPN? Does this make sense?
Thanks!!
