Next you need to select your VPN in the list and click on Advanced in the bottom right hand corner. I am sure there is a better way to do this with shell script and finding out exactly which connection to select and delete/add when routing, but it is beyond my skill right now. This is important because of the way OSX handles the routing tables. If you have multiple VPN connections you can place them all after your main Internet connection, just make sure that your main Internet connection is the first item in the list. Then position your VPN connection so that it is the second item in the list. The first thing you need to do is set up the order of your network services and disable 'Send all traffic over VPN connection.' Go to System Preferences » Network and perform the following actions:Ĭlick on the gear icon at the bottom of the services list and choose 'Set Service Order.' Click and drag your main Internet connection to the top of the list. Please keep in mind that I am not an experienced Terminal user or power user so if anyone knows of a better way to do this please let me know.
I searched for a long time for a way to do this and could not find one so I thought of a way to do it on my own. The problem with these is that they are almost all using openVPN, while I use L2TP over IPSec for my VPN.
I know some VPN providers have 'Internet kill switches' for their VPN that will cut your Internet connection incase of a disconnect and make sure you are not leaking anything. It also occurred to me that many people use VPNs in the states in order to safely torrent. While this is not a big deal really, I would just prefer not to be logged in to Facebook or Gmail and have my traffic open to be sniffed by the great firewall. Unfortunately the VPN will at times randomly disconnect and then all traffic will immediately start going over chinese Internet again. I live in China so I have to use VPN all the time if I want any kind of stable connection to sites in the west.
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