Is there a way to automate the original default gateway?

[maurertodd]

I have a successful OpenVPN connection. But when it is connected all internet traffic flows through the OpenVPN tunnel which is very slow.

I can manually fix this on Windows with CMD prompt>

C:/> route change 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 mask 0.0.0.0

Once that is done all connections behave the way I want.

Is there a way to avoid the OpenVPN client from changing the default gateway, or to automate putting the default gateway back immediately after the connection is complete?

[janjust]

the default gateway is redirected because either the server uses

push "redirect-gateway def1"

or because the client config contains

redirect-gateway def1

If you don't control the server then you can overrule the server behaviour by adding

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route-nopull

to the client config file - this will skip ALL routes pushed by the VPN server.