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Route only some traffic through different VPNs

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In my work, I have quite a few different external networks that I need to access from time to time via VPN. Generally I need to connect to somebody else's managed network to access their Building Management System (BMS) so I am at the mercy of however they set up their network access - this usually involves juggling various assigned logins and having to re-enter the credentials everywhere I go. More annoyingly, they usually require me to login to their VPN (most often through GlobalProtect). These are not my primary work networks, so the restrictions vary and I have to log into the VPN and then back out as soon as I am done so that I am not sending all of the rest of my traffic through the VPN. In a few of these instances, I have run into issues where I can't directly access the internet for troubleshooting while I am connected to the VPN because of their restrictive policies.

Is there a relatively straightforward way to wall off either a separate instance of Chrome or maybe a Windows desktop where only that traffic would be routed through the VPN? I thought that maybe split tunneling might be the answer, but that seemed to miss the mark when I tried to use NordVPN since it would only let me connect to their VPN servers.

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Tero Kilkanen

Most likely the VPN connections enforce policies where all traffic is forwarded via the VPN. This is for security reasons.

Therefore you should run the VPN on separate computer, or a virtual machine. This way only that computer / virtual machine traffic goes via the VPN.

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Ultimately you were right. Split-tunneling as advertised was not the same as what I was trying to use it for. The best solution for the problem that I was having was, as you suggested, a virtual machine that had its own dedicated VPN connection.
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