Configuration: route specific traffic over Openvpn

[janhoedt]

Great, thanks!
Regarding Iphone, I kind of hoped the destination proxy-server could be added in config(?)

[janhoedt]

Can't I configure to use a proxy as from when connected?
F.e. remote proxy: 192.168.1. ...

[RedPenguin]

I have a question related to the original posters question but with a slight spin.

My OpenVPN setup is limited to 256KB/s (normally around 200) upload.

I use it on the go on open wifi networks with security.

Now normally 200kb/s works fine for web browsing, VoIP, streaming media, etc.

My question is, is there any type of setup I can do with OpenVPN that when I need to download large files, like a Linux ISO, it could be like, nah send that through your normal connection?

I ask because once in a while I have to turn off the tunnel to download a file otherwise I'm sitting there for hours downloading it at 200KB/s when the WiFI I may be on can download at 1MB/s or more.

If you can't really go by file size can you at least go by protocol?

[janjust]

this is not really an openvpn issue: suppose you have 2 network cables with 2 internet connections, one fast, one slow. how would you tell your PC to do certain transfers via 1 link, and others via the other link? this is virtually impossible using TCP/IP routing, as you cannot filter on file size

filtering on protocol type is possible on linux (e.g. using iptables) but it's tricky and again, has little to do with openvpn

[Halems]

i found socks5 to be slow for web browser proxy. maybe its the tcp over tcp is a bad idea thing. my pref is to host in my lan a http proxy server (squid) and then , using vpn, configure the chrome proxy addon to talk to the remote lan squid.... so no ssh involved