VPN Director help

[g121]

Rookie here .. I've scanned other VPN Director threads but am still confused.

I have an Asus RT-AC86U router running Merlin Firmware Version:386.7_2.
I use a Canadian Surfshark VPN server on my router & it is the default catch-all for all traffic.

I'm having VPN Director challenges trying to listen to various iHeart/Bell Media channels on my various devices.

For my setup that had worked for months/years, I now need to direct my Ocean Digital bedroom internet radio to WAN as iHeart/Bell is doing major monkeying w/ their Geo-Blocking & they no long recognize the Canadian Surfshark servers as Canadian plus, from my layman's perspective, it appears there's multi-level Geo-Blocking now going on as my previous routing of specific audio stream URLs to WAN no longer works.

My challenge is I do have a couple of other audio streams that must go thru USA. Since WAN rules take precedent over VPN1/2/3/4/5 rules & i must route my entire Ocean Digital radio to WAN, how to i override the WAN rule for just two explicit remote IPs?

So how do route my Ocean Digital bedroom radio [ IP = 192.168.3.23 ] to WAN but override it just for two explicit audio stream URLs
namely [ live365.com IP=216.235.88.162 ; https://ais-edge37-live365-dal02.cdnstream.com/a73754 IP=216.235.86.143 ]

attached pic is my current VPN Director attempts.

thanks in advance for guidance .. cheers from Toronto

 

[g121]

So there is no way to direct a device to the WAN .. BUT .. override this for 2 explicit remote destination IPs to a VPN?

 

[Martineau]

So there is no way to direct a device to the WAN .. BUT .. override this for 2 explicit remote destination IPs to a VPN?

Not via the GUI.

EDIT: Corrected rules to include placeholder for OpenVPN client table - Thanks @chongnt

i.e. try the following commands

ip rule add from 192.168.3.23  to  216.235.88.162 table ovpncX prio 77

ip rule add from 192.168.3.23  to  216.235.86.143 table ovpncX prio 77

Check the rules....

ip rule

then test.

If it works, then use the appropriate opevpn-event 'route-up' script (executed when the OpenVPN client initialises) to automatically insert the two custom VPN rules with a higher priority than the existing WAN rule.

# Prevent duplicates
ip rule del from 192.168.3.23  to  216.235.88.162 table ovpncX prio 77 >/dev/null
ip rule del from 192.168.3.23  to  216.235.86.143 table ovpncX prio 77 >/dev/null

ip rule add from 192.168.3.23  to  216.235.88.162 table ovpncX prio 77
ip rule add from 192.168.3.23  to  216.235.86.143 table ovpncX prio 77

 

[chongnt]

perhaps need to specify ovpnc2 if want to explicitly route it via ovpn2.

ip rule add from 192.168.3.23  to  216.235.88.162 table ovpnc2 prio 77
ip rule add from 192.168.3.23  to  216.235.86.143 table ovpnc2 prio 77

 

[g121]

Thank you [B]Martineau[/B] for the direction & thanks to [B]chongnt[/B] for picking up that yes indeed, i need to route those 2 remote IPs specifically to my USA server OVPN2.

I've never gone beyond working with the Merlin GUI, so i'll have to do some learning on basic scripting & how to access the JFFS directory which i assume is where i put the script.