DaveInNepean
New Around Here
Hello! I'm new to the forum and new to asuswrt-merlin as well. I wanted to be able to route only certain devices to a VPN, and since I've always been a fan of Asus routers, the path led to a new RT-AC86U, upgraded to ususwrt-merlin to get the selective routing capability.
My setup all went fine and it was all working very well. But I hit one streaming service that was detecting I was on a VPN and denying me access. I decided to set up a second VPN client to play with different servers (this is using ExpressVPN BTW). I created an exact duplicate of Client 1 but set different ExpressVPN servers. None of them worked. Even using the same server s Client 1, it was not working. I switched back to Client 1 and confirmed it was still working properly. I decided it was time for a reboot and rebooted the router. Now Client 2 was working just fine.
So, my question - is it reasonable to expect that I should be able to switch VPN clients without a reboot? The process I was using for switching was to turn off the active VPN client first, and then turn on the other one, so I never had two active at the same time.
Thanks.
My setup all went fine and it was all working very well. But I hit one streaming service that was detecting I was on a VPN and denying me access. I decided to set up a second VPN client to play with different servers (this is using ExpressVPN BTW). I created an exact duplicate of Client 1 but set different ExpressVPN servers. None of them worked. Even using the same server s Client 1, it was not working. I switched back to Client 1 and confirmed it was still working properly. I decided it was time for a reboot and rebooted the router. Now Client 2 was working just fine.
So, my question - is it reasonable to expect that I should be able to switch VPN clients without a reboot? The process I was using for switching was to turn off the active VPN client first, and then turn on the other one, so I never had two active at the same time.
Thanks.