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Given: I have a wireless (or wired) connection to the internet. Given: I am connected to a dial-up/VPN connection over the internet using Windows VPN.

By default under this setup, ALL traffic winds up going over the VPN connection. However I really only need the VPN in order to remote in to a development server.

Is it possible to somehow tell the system that I want the remote connection to go over the VPN, but that browser traffic, email, etc. should all just go out over the underlying and basic internet connection, and NOT go through the VPN?

I am running on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

I am open to directing traffic via port rules, or based on exe name, or whatever.

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Okay... When i asked my question, i perused the "related" questions that came up when i tabbed out of the title box, and none matched or had answers that helped.

However, AFTER posting my question, one of the related questions in the sidebar DID have the answer.

Find that answer here: How can I make the Windows VPN route selective traffic (by destination network)? .

Basically, right-click the VPN connection > Properties > Networking > dbl-click IPv4 and IPv6 > Advanced > IP Settings and turn off Use default gateway on remote network.

I did NOT need to do any of the messing around with adding routes or any of that though.

I can connect to the machine to which I needed to VPN, and other traffic is still routing over the regular internet connection. I verified things are going where expected with numerous tracerts to numerous hosts.

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