Route only irc traffic through VPN

[necro]

Znc is a irc bouncer. Openvpn is the Von client. I want to route znc traffic from my Linux box to a VPN service. Transmission client must connect directly to Internet.

[tomcheng76]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('necro', 'Z')nc is a irc bouncer. Openvpn is the Von client. I want to route znc traffic from my Linux box to a VPN service. Transmission client must connect directly to Internet.

[necro]

I think I did not make myself clear.
I have ddclient, znc bouncer running and I can access znc/servers from Internet.
But , I want my znc to go to VPN/ssh tunnel service first and from there to connect to public irc server so that Whois on irc looks like the VPN ip instead of my home ip. And I am using znc as I need to be connected on about 4 servers.

I hope this clears out my concern about routing only znc traffic to VPN service first and then znc connects to irc servers.

[necro]

Just an update, I have been able to achieve the routing using pptp client and arch wiki guide.

The only problem is starting pptp client on boot. Even with sleep command, can't connect it. But if I do it manually , it connects well. I am using the cron job to start the command. Znc starts after 10 mins of boot but "pon tunnel" command doesn't connects to server. Although it is executed, but it doesn't connects.

Any thoughts ?

Alternatively, i tried openvpn, but still facing the port based routing problem!! Also, anyone aware abt where to add the iptable command for port based routing ? Possibly it could be a script which gets invoked when openvpn starts ?

[majkelos]

Hi mate,

Try this one: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4875
If you wanbt to start openvpn at boot and you have /etc/openvpn/config.conf file already set up you can do:

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systemctl enable openvpn@config.service
')

...to start openvpn at boot.
Have a look

[necro]

Thanks, I was able to route it using pptp and using the iptables in above post