Split tunnel VPN

VPN
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First of all, I’m not a networking or Ubiquiti expert. It’s pretty complicated but works well. I have a full ubiquity set up and I was wondering if there’s a way to set up a split tunnel vpn with my provider Nord VPN.

I live in a country where discord and FaceTime is blocked so it would be amazing if I could only direct FaceTime and discord usage through a vpn only.

I don’t want to run all traffic through the VPN because it complicates things so I just want a few services on it.

Anyone know if this is possible? Would really appreciate help. Thanks!

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This is absolutely possible. My power has been out from a tornado so I can’t verify this but you should be able to setup a VPN client and then set up a traffic route for specific domains. Facetime might call additional services under different domains that could go outside that VPN so I would verify everything before trying if it is a crime to do so.

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I use this to force certain MAC addresses over VPN. I have a dream router at my vacation home in Portugal. I have a dream machine pro se at my primary home in the states. I have the UDR sending all of my Apple TV traffic in Portugal over the split to the UDM.

It may be possible to send traffic from all devices to certain destinations over the split like you want.

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I have a wireguard vpn tunnel (client) on my UDR and country based policy routing so I can watch TV content from my home country via Apple TV and rest of the IP traffic is not going over the tunnel. I believe the network application supports country based or domain based policies.

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And is it possible to route specific ports through the VPN (the only option is Domainname/IP/Region).

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Thanks for confirming! Pretty much everyone already uses vpns to unblock things, it would just be easier if I did it at the router level with split tunnelling.

I’ll try wrapping my heard around the complexities I’ve found in split tunnelling for ubiquity. I hope you get everything fixed from the tornado soon

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Thanks for the help, but looking into it my hub/switch (I’m not sure what it’s called) seems to be incapable of running/setting up a VPN client. It’s the US-8-150W.

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Can one also easily split torrent traffic to go over the VPN? I was hoping to be able to split certain websites and torrents to go through the vpn. But haven’t found proper guides yet. Do you know of any more?

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If I get a dream router, like one of their small ones, and add it to my network would it give the whole network the added functionality? I doubt it would, but worth asking.

On my console there is a VPN section but it’s different from all the others I’ve seen. I think it only allows me to create a VPN to connect to my network remotely, rather than add a client VPN for my network.

I’m running out of ports on mine anyway and proper dream/cloud enabled switches don’t seem too expensive for what they are so I’ll consider just upgrading.

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Seems simple enough, thanks!

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I love the one you have but my fiber comes in under the stairs and my house is thick concrete, so I think a router that’s also an access point would be a waste. Plus I have an access point in every room and another would be overkill.

Thank you a lot for all your help and recommendations though! Hopefully sometime soon I’ll get a newer hub which will support the VPNs.