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I'm trying to setup my VPN and I'm a bit confused here.

I have a commercial VPN subscription that I'm using on my phone and laptop. Now I've set up WireGuard on my OpenWRT router to access my home network remotely. I can connect to it from my phone but from what I see there's no way to have both commercial VPN and my local network WG active at the same time (both are using WG so I'm trying to create WG config with two peers but I don't think it's possible).

So what do people actually do? From what I see I have 3 options:

Don't use commercial VPN on my phone, only use WG to access my network
Switch between VPNs manually whenever I want to access my network
Setup commercial VPN on my router, move all my networks traffic through this VPN and move all traffic from my phone through my home network.

Am I missing something? What's the typical approach here? I thought that what I'm trying to do is basic scenario but it looks like it's not that simple if at all possible.

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[-] scott@lem.free.as 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you use an app like RethinkDNS, it will allow you to run multiple, simultaneous VPN connections and then choose how you want to route your traffic.

I have the same situation as you. I run two VPN connections. One to home and one to a VPS. I route all traffic to 10/8 to the home VPN, certain apps to my VPS VPN and then the rest of the traffic via the local connection.

RethinkDNS also does local DNS filtering and allows you to specify which DNS service to use. I run my own DoT service that backs off to the PiHole at home.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

Ah, so I bet what they're doing is looking like a single VPN from the Android OS level, setting a default route into that, and then doing routing in userspace.

[-] dieTasse@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago

Can it connect to the VPNs simultaneously though? I don't have it, but from what I see it can have configurations from multiple vpns but only one can be up at a time.

[-] scott@lem.free.as 2 points 5 months ago

Yep. I have two at the same time.

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