Ensuring All Traffic Goes Over VPN?

When using a VPN service provider, what is to stop applications from connecting to the internet outside of that VPN connection?

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A firewall can easily do that. Just add an outgoing rule imposing that the destination IP for all protocols/ports/whatever is that of the "VPN" server. This way all connection attempts that go directly to the real server instead will fail.

The rudimentary built-in Windows Firewall is perfectly capable of imposing such restriction.

Alejandro85 said:

A firewall can easily do that. Just add an outgoing rule imposing that the destination IP for all protocols/ports/whatever is that of the "VPN" server. This way all connection attempts that go directly to the real server instead will fail.

The rudimentary built-in Windows Firewall is perfectly capable of imposing such restriction.

Thanks. When using a VPN service provider, what is to stop applications from connecting to the internet outside of that VPN connection?

iron7 said:

Thanks. When using a VPN service provider, what is to stop applications from connecting to the internet outside of that VPN connection?

Your firewall can do that, when configured to do so. Read my previous post about it.

Alejandro85 said:

Your firewall can do that, when configured to do so. Read my previous post about it.

Please disregard thread title. Not looking for a solution, just info about standard operation, thanks.

iron7 said:

Please disregard thread title. Not looking for a solution, just info about standard operation, thanks.

I don't get the question then. I understand that the question is generic, and so is my previous answer, once again, look at post #2 in this thread. My answer is also quite generic (if not somewhat vague), but it describes the basic idea well enough, so I don't know what else can I add without a more specific question.

What's your doubts exactly? Anything else beyond "how to stop programs from not using a VPN?"?

let's try:

When using a VPN service provider, can some applications connect to the internet outside of that VPN connection? If so, how?