> My computer is connected to internet through a router whose internal > address is 192.168.1.1. > > Here is some interesting stuff after the vpn as been brought up: > > ifconfig tun0 > tun0: flags=8011<UP,POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > groups: tun > inet 132.204.232.32 --> 132.204.2.20 netmask 0xffffffff
> Internet: > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Mtu Interface > default 192.168.1.1 UGS 2 468 - fxp0 > 10.5.9/24 vpn.CC.UMontreal.C UGS 0 0 1500 tun0 Your default route still goes out your local router. That's really probably what you want in most cases - access to university resources and raw Internet access through the local connection with lower latency and probably faster speed. You need to add a host route to the VPN server that goes via your local router. If you just change the default then the machine can't know how to get encrypted data to the VPN server and so then it can't do anything at all. A
