How to disable routing all network traffic through OpenVPN?

Question

I installed OpenVPN on an Ubuntu machine at home, but when I connect to it, all my network traffic goes through it. I don't want this to happen.

I would like to be able to see only the local LAN network, but not routing all traffic.

How could this be done?

Thanks!

Also remove any redirect-gateway line in your client config. — Tom Yan, Aug 14 '17 at 0:30
@TomYan The Client config does not have a redirect-gateway line. What should I do with the "--pull-filter ignore redirect-gateway"? Should I put it in the client config? — AnonUser456, Aug 14 '17 at 3:42
You can either put it in the config (without the --) or use it when you run openvpn (e.g. openvpn --config path/to/config --pull-filter ignore redirect-gateway) — Tom Yan, Aug 14 '17 at 8:22

mwfearnley · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-10 10:38:29Z

To condense Tom Yan's comments into an answer:

make sure there are no redirect-gateway lines in your client config
add the following line to filter out any redirect-gateway settings pulled from the VPN server:

pull-filter ignore redirect-gateway

The method is documented in https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/IgnoreRedirectGateway, but it only mentions the --pull-filter command-line parameter, not how to add it to a config file.

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