How to block streaming services like youtube, netflix

[kdegraaf]

Hi all,

My VPN is working fine, everyone is now working from home and performance is good.
But to ensure no one is going to use to much bandwidth I want to block streaming services like Youtube and Netflix.

Is it possible to do this?

Thanks, Klaas

[Pippin]

If you do not use --redirect-gateway then there would be no need for blocking.

[kdegraaf]

Hi Pippin,

I'm using that because a lot of servers that we use are white listed only for the IP of the office.
We don't want to add white listing for the private IP address of our employees.

[TinCanTech]

My VPN is working fine, everyone is now working from home and performance is good

You need to learn how openvpn and routing works in order to do your job properly.

[kdegraaf]

My VPN is working fine, everyone is now working from home and performance is good

You need to learn how openvpn and routing works in order to do your job properly.

I guess I'm not going to learn if from you

[TinCanTech]

You need to learn how openvpn <s> works

See the Howto.

You need to learn how <s> routing works

This is surely part of your job and you ought to know already.

I can teach you for a reasonable fee, this does not seem unreasonable.

[kdegraaf]

Well, we are just a small company. We don't have a dedicated network administrator.
I was just happy that I got OpenVPN to work and I was hoping to find some help here.
It is called the support forum right?

So is there a way to change my config so that traffic to a certain server is also routed through VPN? (when I turn off redirect gateway)

[TinCanTech]

we are just a small company

And I am a volunteer .. you can encourage us to help by offering a financial incentive.

is there a way to change my config so that traffic to a certain server is also routed through VPN? (

route IP

If you read the documentation this is easy to find.

[kdegraaf]

route IP

Thanks I'm going to check that