Making client go through the VPN server for non-VPN IPs also

rvsw

I am a newbie assisting in setting up an openvpn server. As I understand, only network packets from the client destined for IP address behind the VPN server go through the VPN connection. So if the network packet is destined for say google.com and the VPN server is for some organization foo.com, then the packet will not go through foo.com but directly through google.com
What if I want the packet to go through foo.com always or at least for some particular websites. Can we configure this in the client / server

Thanks for any inputs

mwandelaar

You can do this with redirecting all the traffic to the VPN-server. This way the VPN-server will become the actual gateway for the client.
The option used for this is

redirect-gateway

and is explained clearly in the manpage
Don't forget to add routing and possible NAT oin the server-side.