Exclude browser session from VPN session

Hi all,
I use a software VPN sometimes to connect to a remote LAN. I use vpnc and it creates a software tunnel interface. All my traffic then goes through the remote LAN. is there a way to have part of my traffic not go through the VPN? I'd like to have a separate browser session which is excluded from the VPN. Is this possible?

Actually, a SOCKS proxy would still abide by the IP routing rules. The browser session would only seem to originate from the proxy (from any web server's point of view), but the traffic would still go through the VPN first.
s5s wrote:
Hi all,
I use a software VPN sometimes to connect to a remote LAN. I use vpnc and it creates a software tunnel interface. All my traffic then goes through the remote LAN. is there a way to have part of my traffic not go through the VPN? I'd like to have a separate browser session which is excluded from the VPN. Is this possible?
Assuming that by "browser session" you mean HTTP and HTTPS traffic, you may be able to exclude traffic with the corresponding TCP ports as destination from the VPN route(s) by configuring your host's firewall. On the other hand, such a policy would apply to all web traffic, not just from within the browser.
Just to be sure, wouldn't it be an option for you to only route traffic through the VPN that needs to reach the other LAN, instead of routing everything through there by default?

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