How can I use the clients internet rather than the servers?

CraftyClown

Hi guys and gals,

I've had OpenVPN successfully running on my DDWRT router for about a year and regularly access my home server from multiple devices without issue, however I was wondering if it is possible to configure things so that the device I am accessing from still uses it's local internet connection, rather than that of my server? and if so are there practical downsides to such a config?

Cheers

My server config is:


push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8"
push "redirect-gateway def1"
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0

dev tun2
proto udp
keepalive 10 120
dh /tmp/openvpn/dh.pem
ca /tmp/openvpn/ca.crt
cert /tmp/openvpn/cert.pem
key /tmp/openvpn/key.pem
management localhost 5001

verb 5

and my client config is:

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote craftyclown.ddns.net 1196
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun

ca ca.crt
cert workstation.crt
key workstation.key
ns-cert-type server
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 4
float

maikcat

if it is possible to configure things so that the device I am accessing from still uses it's local internet connection, rather than that of my server?

simply remove the push redirect-gateway directive from your server config.

downsides? its all about what do you want to do.....

Michael.