I work from home and I usually share my keyboard and mouse between my personal computer and work computer with Barrier
Personal: Windows 10
Work: Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 22.10
Problem is that when I sometimes need to connect to my work vpn (SonicWall NetExtender), I lose all the connections to my home network, having to work directly from the laptop.
Is there a way for barrier to bypass my work vpn and stay connected to the server on my personal pc?
The technology you’re looking for is called split tunneling, however, for security reasons, it normally has to be enabled from the VPN server configuration. You may want to contact your IT department to see if they can help you.
Found myself a “solution”, use the ipv6 of my pc instead of the ipv4
I doubt they will help. From the logs I see on netExtender they are forwarding a few subnets, inlcuding 192.168.0.0/255.255.192.0.
When I had windows on the work laptop, it was working fine
If only there was a way to force barrier to use only the wlan interface.
I can’t ping my personal pc, but i can ping my router (.1.254)
Does your company already use split tunnelling?
If so, are they also forwarding 172.16.0.0 /12 (255.240.0.0) or 10.0.0.0 /8 (255.0.0.0) ? - If not, you could change the DHCP range of your home network to somewhere in that range and you should be able to access devices on your home network. Depending of course that the VPN solution doesn’t restrict non-VPN’d traffic to only ports 80/443/53 for HTTP/HTTPS/DNS traffic.
I think that they are forwarding those networks too. And changing my dhcp range is going to be a pain because I have a lot of devices with static ips (my routers DHCP managers is very basic so I have to set on the device manually the ip’s)
I also tried to use this: novpn: Bypass VPN for specific apps [Linux / OpenVPN] · GitHub
But it worked only once or twice with me