guide The Guide for Torrenting, split-tunneling, killswitch and all the other buzzwords

[BannaViking 0]

Thanks for breaking that down for me!

[squillrar 0]

With this setup, how could I also bind a browser to the same VPN as qBittorrent? I'm running into an issue with a private tracker that requires users to be connected through the same IP on their torrent client and on the browser accessing the site, so I cannot use this private tracker with my browser being outside of this VPN tunnel. 

[guidance 8]

@squillrar Not possible with browsers. The only workaround in the spirit of this guide:

1. Install a local SOCKS proxy
2. Configure SOCKS proxy to start on boot and only bind to the VPN_Internal IP address (similar to BT client)
3. Change browser settings to connect through this proxy locally (over localhost address)

Firefox allows you per-container proxy configuration, make use of this great feature! Otherwise the much clunkier solution is to have a separate browser profile/separate browser for proxy connections.

iirc Mullvad's Wireguard client is supposed to have implemented the so called split tunneling. It is technically impressive they managed to do this on Windows. Although it is technically pretty hacky and thus a brittle solution in my opinion.

OK OK I just thought of the old way. If your target website always has the same IP address, i.e. not behind Cloudflare which is rare these days, then you can manually override the route to it in the OpenVPN config. See guide:

Quote

route <tracker website IP address> 255.255.255.255 vpn_gateway

where 255.255.255.255 means to permit only this one IP address for override. This rule will then apply to all applications.

PS: I really need to update the images for clarity and incorporate Linux with Wireguard...

[puccubus 0]

Thank you for the guide, working great for me on Windows! 

[baneduoderance 0]

is this stil valid in 2025? thats the only way to achieve split tunneling in windowns with eddie 2.24.6?
thanks

[OWild 6]

For those interested, you can read this :
https://github.com/whyvl/wireproxy/tree/master