MrOblivious
New Around Here
Hello All - This is my first post here, but have been learning from the sages on the site for some time. I’m sure there will be more questions to follow.
I have an ASUS RT-AC86U running Merlin 384.19, Diversion, and Skynet. I recently switched to NordVPN. As my previous provider wasn’t streamer-friendly, I had to have policy rules in place so that the Apple TV went out over the WAN, but all other traffic went through the VPN tunnel. Since NordVPN allows me to stream through the VPN, this is no longer necessary. I configured the router per their tutorial and am able to successfully stream Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and Disney+. The last step in the tutorial is the optional kill switch set-up which of course is instead of having ‘Force Internet traffic through tunnel’ set to 'Yes', have a single (strict) policy rule to have all traffic go through the VPN and enable ‘Block routed clients if tunnel goes down’.
When the setting is set to ‘Yes’ I’m able to stream and all is well. When it’s set to the policy rules method, I get the assorted ‘you’re behind a VPN/Proxy so we’re not talking to you’ messages from each of the providers.
I’m a little confused as to what the difference is since there’s only the one policy rule which directs all traffic through the tunnel. I would prefer to have the functionality of the kill switch Do I need to be concerned about it, or is traffic stopped when you select ‘Yes’ and the tunnel is down?.
Thanks very much for any insights
I have an ASUS RT-AC86U running Merlin 384.19, Diversion, and Skynet. I recently switched to NordVPN. As my previous provider wasn’t streamer-friendly, I had to have policy rules in place so that the Apple TV went out over the WAN, but all other traffic went through the VPN tunnel. Since NordVPN allows me to stream through the VPN, this is no longer necessary. I configured the router per their tutorial and am able to successfully stream Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and Disney+. The last step in the tutorial is the optional kill switch set-up which of course is instead of having ‘Force Internet traffic through tunnel’ set to 'Yes', have a single (strict) policy rule to have all traffic go through the VPN and enable ‘Block routed clients if tunnel goes down’.
When the setting is set to ‘Yes’ I’m able to stream and all is well. When it’s set to the policy rules method, I get the assorted ‘you’re behind a VPN/Proxy so we’re not talking to you’ messages from each of the providers.
I’m a little confused as to what the difference is since there’s only the one policy rule which directs all traffic through the tunnel. I would prefer to have the functionality of the kill switch Do I need to be concerned about it, or is traffic stopped when you select ‘Yes’ and the tunnel is down?.
Thanks very much for any insights