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I have an odd situation that I do not know what the term would be used to describe it... So bare with me.

I want to have people working from home to connect to our office network via openvpn. The office network has been added to an allow Ip list for a remote public web site (offsite at a datacenter).

I only want these home workers to route data through the office for this single web site. Again, the web site is Not at the office, it is a public web site with a public ip address that has access restrictions based on the source ip address (in this case, our office network).

How would I implement this in openvpn and what is the proper terms to use for looking this type of configuration up?

1) set up openvpn "like normal", i.e. allow your remote workers to contact your office network
2) push out an extra route to the clients:
push "route <remote-website> 255.255.255.255"
for a single host - this will route all traffic to the website via the VPN.

HTH,

JJK

Hello,

What if the website is a domain name, such as yahoo.com?

that won't work; you're better off using a SOCKS proxy for that.

Hello...

But you just replied @ post12065.html

and the answer works perfectly!!