3rd Party VPNS & Split Tunneling

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3rd Party VPNS & Split Tunneling

It has been over a year or longer when Apple made changes to the Mac that have essentially blocked 99.99% of 3rd party VPN providers from supporting split tunneling.

Several L2 calls with Apple resulted in Apple insisting there were no changes to the MacOS (few versions back now) to how traffic was routed and to contact the VPN provider. VPN provider after provider all stopped supporting split tunnel for the Mac since the change.

(yes, Express, PIA & Hide.me...got it)

Apple - PLEASE update to support VPN providers w/Split Tunneling.

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We are constantly messing w/the settings and turning VPN on and off on and off to access the internet or access a server - it is mind boggling whey this change was made w/o any support to the VPN providers.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.5

Posted on Nov 29, 2022 4:08 PM

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Answer 1

PRP_53

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Nov 30, 2022 7:01 AM in response to Do_Not_FORCE_ALL_PW_to_iCloud

If the user has some new, helpful information by all means do so.

The ASC Forums are Hosted by Apple and are intended for Technical issues about Apple Services and Technical Apple Hardware issues.

Anything outside of these perimeters in generally off limits

The suggestions have been put forth on a volunteer basis, in good faith and in the best interests of the computer.

1 - Get Support Choose a product and we’ll find you the best solution.Start now and open an Apple Support Ticket as they are Apple Employees to deal will these types of issues .

2 - Product Feedback - Apple and make it known to Apple regarding this ongoing issue

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Nov 30, 2022 4:09 AM in response to etresoft

The topic is split tunneling using third party vpn services, not a debate on the merits of third party vpn services.

What was asked was clearly not reserved to enterprise vpn solutions, rather specific to consumer vpn services. Splitting traffic for home networks and VPN (regardless of type or opinion) for outside internet is a very common use case.

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PixelRogue1 Author

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Dec 2, 2022 2:48 PM in response to PRP_53

Unclear of the party in which this response was intended.

Apple claims there never any changes made to MacOS that alters traffic routing. Two Level 2 agents stated emphatically there were no changes.

That statement contradicts all the 3rd party VPN providers that can not longer support split tunneling on the Mac.

Meanwhile folks like us are caught in the middle forced to manually switch networks dozens of times a day or even hour as a result.

Hoping other see this thread and decide to jump in to discuss (w/o questioning the vpn services employed etc.)

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etresoft

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Nov 29, 2022 4:42 PM in response to PixelRogue1

Those VPNs that you mentioned are all consumer-grade, mass-market solutions. They are only designed to, in their own words, "Hide My A**". And even then, many of them do not succeed.

What you are asking for with split tunnelling is more enterprise-grade VPN. But even there, this is not a common use case because most of their customers are already on the enterprise network.

Your best bet here would be an open source tool based on OpenVPN. Those options should support split tunnelling and some of them might work on a Mac.

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etresoft

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Nov 30, 2022 5:50 AM in response to Do_Not_FORCE_ALL_PW_to_iCloud

Do_Not_FORCE_ALL_PW_to_iCloud wrote:

The topic is split tunneling using third party vpn services, not a debate on the merits of third party vpn services.

Then contact all those third party VPN service and ask them why they don’t support that.

What was asked was clearly not reserved to enterprise vpn solutions, rather specific to consumer vpn services. Splitting traffic for home networks and VPN (regardless of type or opinion) for outside internet is a very common use case.

Yeah, right!

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