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Thang

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In the control panel of netgear x4s r7800 there is pureVPN vpn client entry, I plan to use it. But how can I bypass VPN for 1 specific device when connecting to VPN/router. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, please help me because in the country where I live, ISPs' international bandwidth restriction is very common. Tks so much again !
P/s: Sorry if the content is difficult to understand because I used google translate.

Screenshot 2021-09-12 at 04-16-05 NETGEAR Router R7800.png
 
In the control panel of netgear x4s r7800 there is pureVPN vpn client entry, I plan to use it. But how can I bypass VPN for 1 specific device when connecting to VPN/router. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, please help me because in the country where I live, ISPs' international bandwidth restriction is very common. Tks so much again !
P/s: Sorry if the content is difficult to understand because I used google translate.

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It is only possible if you can SSH or telnet into the router.

If so, then create a script (for instance bypassvpn.sh) and make it executable.
Edit the script and put this contents in there:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

[ "$(grep -c "novpn$" /etc/iproute2/rt_tables)" -eq "0" ] && [ "$(grep -c "^213" /etc/iproute2/rt_tables)" -eq "0" ] && echo "213 novpn" >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
ip route flush table novpn
ip route flush cache

ip route show table main | grep -vE "tun21" | while read -r route; do
  if ! ip route show table novpn | grep "$route"; then
    ip route add $route table novpn
  fi
done

#to have an IP-address bypass vpn:
[ "$(ip rule list | grep -c "192.168.1.4 lookup novpn")" = "0" ] && ip rule add from 192.168.1.4 table novpn
(replace 192.168.1.4 with the IP-address you want to have bypass the VPN (in both places); add more lines if you want to bypass more IP-addresses.)

After you have started the VPN, execute the script and confirm that the IP-address is indeed bypassing. (for instance via https://www.whatsmyip.org)

If it is working, then you somehow need to change the VPN startup script, so that this bypassvpn.sh is executed once the VPN tunnel is up. I don't have access to stock FW, but I suspect that is in /etc/init.d/openvpn-client.

Assumption from my end is that also on stock FW, the VPN client tunnel interface is tun21. so you might want to verify that. (once VPN is up, do: ip route show and look for dev tun)
If it has a different name, then change it also in the script.
 

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