[plug] Linux VPN Router

[Paul Antoine]

You can set up routing on the OSX box to route requests to the German IP 
subnet up the VPN and make the default for everything else out the local 
DSL connection.  DNS issues are separate from IP routing issues... and 
OSX can do the routing you want (as can most OS's, even Windows!)

Please type:

    route -n

on the OSX VPN router box and send us your results... we can help you 
from there.

P.

Chris Watt wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have an old Linux box laying around that I want to try and put to
> good use as a bit of a router for my ADSL in my office.  My company
> have a VPN that connects us to the server in Germany for access to the
> intranet, file servers, etc. etc.
>
> However, at the moment when I connect to that VPN I can not use
> anything else (Using OSX with built in VPN software) as the DNS times
> out trying to route through Germany.  Unfortunately, as far as I can
> tell, there is no way to tell OS X to use the VPN *only* for certain
> web addresses and let all else use the normal gateway setup.
>
> So what I want to do is have the linux box (that I also want to use as
> a wiki/cal server and stick some files on there) route this VPN
> traffic for me.  I would like to have the Linux box either create the
> connection on demand or keep it alive permanently for the web
> addresses that need to connect through it.  Basically I want the linux
> box to route all *.mobotix.net and etc. through to the VPN and ensure
> that all other data is router through the DSL connection as per
> normal.  This will allow me to use the VPN and the internet at the
> same time, making my life about 3.000 times easier!
>
> IF anyone can point me in the direction of a good
> tutorial/walk-through/etc. for this, I would be greatly appreciative.
> I have not settled on an OS yet, but preferably something easy to
> maintain and update.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
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