I'm using OpenVPN with a VPN service and I'm seeing traffic from the local TAP adaptor to visited website IPs in my firewall active connections screen (in addition to the expected traffic from openvpn.exe to the VPN server). My question is whether it is normal to see traffic from the TAP adaptor (the one with the 10.x.x.x IP) to visited website server IPs while using the VPN service. For example, if I email a document using gmail, I see two active connections: one is by openvpn.exe from the local wireless adaptor (172.17.x.x or 192.168.x.x) to the VPN server; the second is by Firefox from the TAP adaptor (10.x.x.x) to the gmail server. Both have substantial traffic but seem to be related. If I check my public IP, I get the VPN server address, and it appears that DNS lookups are being done through the VPN DNS servers. I thought that if I'm using a VPN service, the only traffic that should be occurring is between openvpn.exe and the VPN server. When I use TOR, for example, I only see traffic between tor.exe and the TOR server -- nothing from Firefox or any other browser. Does anyone know if this is normal, or if it shows a misconfiguration and leak of traffic? Screenshot at
http://postimg.org/image/4909t6u8v/
Thanks.
BTW: This was posted about a day ago, and some inconsiderate forum moderator replied with an unhelpful answer suggesting that I use a website to check the public IP (which I address in the original posting already) and that this forum isn't here to "provide support for online VPN providers," then locked the topic. If this public forum isn't here to provide answers to questions *ABOUT OPENVPN*, then why is it here? DO NOT LOCK MY TOPICS UNTIL EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO REPLY HAS REPLIED. Last time I checked I didn't live in North Korea.
