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Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"?

From Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.comm, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"?
Date 2012-03-25 13:20 -0400
Organization Ain’t No Organization Here!
Message-ID <jknk49$390$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 03-25-2012 01:09, DaveC wrote:
>> Do you mean a proxy?  A VPN is not normally called a "service."
>
> I tried a service called Witopia which advertises as a VPN service but by
> your definition sounds like it includes a proxy at the destination.
>
> <http://www.witopia.net>
>
> Regardless what it's called (not that a name isn't important (c: ) I want to
> use it for some of the network traffic, not all.

I see, said the blind man.  I'm not a subscriber, but just from their 
main web page, it looks like it is both.  The VPN part prevents your 
local ISP (or anyone using them) from spying on you.  The proxy part
allows any traffic you send through there to have additional processing 
or filtering by them instead of by you (which can include hiding your 
location).

Once the traffic leaves WiTopia, it is still subject to spying, but if 
you are the target, it is much more difficult for the spy to pick you 
out of all the other traffic.

(And of course, you have no way of knowing whether WiTopia or someone 
who hacked into them is spying on you.)

I think ipfirewall(4) or ipfw(8) or route(8) could be used to 
selectively route traffic, but configuration would not be as GUI-simple 
as Apple-provided things.

I haven't used a VPN in seven years, and it wasn't Apple's, but maybe 
WiTopia, if their tech support is as good as they claim, can answer your 
question.

Curious, why do you want to bypass them for some addresses?  Do they do 
things you DON'T want?

-- 
Wes Groleau

   Nutrition for Blokes: Re-engineering your diet for life
   http://www.phlaunt.com/quentin

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VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-24 21:17 -0700
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 00:41 -0400
    Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-24 22:09 -0700
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 08:42 -0400
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 13:20 -0400
        Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-25 17:44 +0000
          Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-25 11:14 -0700
          Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 18:14 -0400
            Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 18:29 -0400
        Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-25 11:13 -0700
          Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 17:39 -0400
            Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-25 21:11 -0700
              Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-26 00:40 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-26 01:08 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-25 23:16 -0700
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-26 07:19 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-26 10:55 +0200
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-26 16:10 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-26 22:18 -0700
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-27 07:09 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-27 04:46 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-27 16:39 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-27 17:14 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-27 20:00 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 13:45 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-27 20:04 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:48 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-27 13:23 -0700
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-27 20:44 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-27 16:01 -0700
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-27 22:52 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 07:56 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-28 15:47 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:54 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-28 03:42 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 07:58 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-28 20:59 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:45 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-28 03:43 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-28 21:05 -0400
          Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 18:28 -0400
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-25 01:48 -0400
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? David Sankey <David.Sankey@stfc.ac.uk> - 2012-03-26 09:58 +0100
    Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-26 08:31 -0700
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-26 08:43 -0700
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-26 18:09 +0000
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? ~± <info@nospam.net> - 2012-03-27 00:00 +0200
    Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-27 09:18 -0700
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? ~± <info@nospam.net> - 2012-03-27 22:54 +0200
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Maury Markowitz <maury.markowitz@gmail.com> - 2012-03-31 08:10 -0700

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