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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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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.
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?