VPN - force a selective range of ip to run on VPN (linux)

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Published on 2013-06-26T02:44:26Z Indexed on 2013/06/26 4:23 UTC
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Preface: I know there are similar question here and there however I'm a kind of newbie on Net stuff so I need an answer on this specific scenario, hoping that can help others too as it is a common problem

Let say I cannot do anything on the local switch to change the local ip range, I don't want to use any complicate trick as use VMachine to hide the local ip range but I want to use net tools to solve the issue.

Scenario

my local net assign me an IP of this class 192.168.1.xxx (ex. 192.168.1.116) and my VPN (VPNC) assign me IP of same class 192.168.1.xxx (ex. 192.168.1.247)

Obviously I need VPN to access local address (ex. 192.168.1.100) but when I open any address of the class 192.168.1.xx the route point to my local net and not to the VPN ones.

I'm on linux and i'd like gui solution (network manager) in case it is not possible let play with route command.

here what network manager offer me: enter image description here

Here my actual route once connected to the VPN:

Here some route information (route -n)

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 wlan0
182.71.21.106   192.168.1.1     255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 wlan0
182.71.21.106   192.168.1.1     255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 wlan0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     9      0        0 wlan0
192.168.1.246   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0

Here my ifconfig :

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
      inet addr:192.168.1.247  P-t-P:192.168.1.246  Mask:255.255.255.255
      UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1400  Metric:1
      RX packets:3415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:2525 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
      RX bytes:3682328 (3.6 MB)  TX bytes:402315 (402.3 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 4c:eb:42:06:a3:a6  
      inet addr:192.168.1.116  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
      inet6 addr: fe80::4eeb:42ff:fe06:a3a6/64 Scope:Link
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:72598 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:42300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0                                                  
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000                                                                              
      RX bytes:76000532 (76.0 MB)  TX bytes:13919400 (13.9 MB)

The Question So basically I would like to add a rule to force this particular address (192.168.1.100) on the VPN and not on my local net

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