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Hi Forum, A couple of days ago I switched from my previous VPN supplier, Perfect Privacy, to AirVPN. I am not making use of Eddie, but am relying on a dedicated VPN router instead (a four port Protectli VP2420 with a Celeron J6412 processor). Connected to the switch downstream of this router are two desktops and a laptop. Since I was already using said VPN router when I was still making use of Perfect Privacy, reconfiguring it for AirVPN was a breeze: I uploaded the OpenVPN configuration files for a number of countries (Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden), and I was good to go 👍. However, I do still have an issue now I am with AirVPN that I have not yet sorted out. This has to do with the fact that I’d like my two desktops to connect to a server in the Netherlands, whereas my laptop should connect to a server in Sweden. Previously, I managed to do this under OpenWrt by making the connection with the server in the Netherlands my default gateway, such, by adding the following two lines to the OpenVPN configuration file for the Dutch server: 1. redirect-gateway def1 2. redirect-gateway ipv6 At the same time, traffic from my laptop was routed to a server in Sweden - this, by making use of the ‘policy based routing’ package of OpenWrt, and by adding the following two lines to the OpenVPN configuration files for the Swedish server: 3. pull-filter ignore "redirect-gateway" 4. pull-filter ignore "redirect-gateway ipv6” Having switched to AirVPN, I have been trying to reach the same result by adding lines 1 and 2 to the configuration file for the Netherlands ('remote nl3.vpn.airdns.org 443’), and lines 3 and 4 to the file for Sweden (‘remote se3.vpn.airdns.org 443’). Although it would have been nice if the solution were as simple as this 😎, unfortunately it doesn’t work. The server in the Netherlands doesn’t become my default gateway, and my laptop doesn’t connect to a server in Sweden as my routing policy tells it to. My question is hence what I should change in the OpenVPN configuration file to make the connection to a server in the Netherlands my default gateway, and also, what needs to be changed in the configuration file for Sweden to make OpenWrt understand that a connection to a server in the latter country should be seen as ‘secondary gateway’, through which traffic is routed only when it is generated by the laptop for which my routing policy is in place. Any suggestions you may have will be warmly welcomed 🙏!

I've been reading of various ways I can prevent connection that are not going through my VPN; 1. changing the DNS servers of all adapters to a VPN connection, 2. using windows firewall blocking all apps that are not part of my standard network type (private vs public), and 3. deleting a default gateway route to/from your router so my communication can exist. Methods 1 and 3 are in the .bat file below; 1 in blue text and 3 in red. I have this .bat file run at startup. According to AirVPN, method 3 should block all non-VPN connections (where 192.168.0.1 is the router). The problem I've been having is that no connections at all can be made, even the VPN. I don't get why; a route has been added to my vpn server IP using mask 255.255.255.255 from the default gateway using viscosity. That should be enough if the VPN IP is contained in the ovpn file, right? The funny thing is, if the 192.168.0.1 address is changed to my interface adapter address, 192.168.0.107, this works just fine. But multiple people have told me that the default gateway address is needed instead. What am I doing wrong here? Can anyone help me accomplish method 3? (The orange text grants me admin rights)