Hello,
I set up Private Internet Access' OpenVPN access in OpenWrt using their .ovpn files that you can download on their website. Setup in OpenWrt was easy and OpenVPN connects without issues. IPv4 is correctly passed through the tunnel. BUT IPv6 remains using my ISPs provided address and is not routed through the tunnel. The main reason is probably that PIA does not provide IPv6 support This is completely fine, I can live with only having IPv4 over VPN. Instead I would want OpenWrt to just block IPv6 completely when I am connected to the VPN.
How to do that? Searching the internet, I found https://askubuntu.com/a/1168366 which recommended adding
pull-filter ignore "ifconfig-ipv6 "
pull-filter ignore "route-ipv6 "
To the OpenVPN configuration file. But these lines just have no effect. I guess they just filter IPv6 options that are passed from the OpenVPN server to my router?
Maybe I can hook some script to openvpn connections to disable/enable the wan6
interface? But I am not sure how.
In the end, the requirement is basically "When being connected to a VPN, all traffic should use the VPN", which is probably something many people want. So maybe I just missed an option to do just that somewhere in OpenVPN?
Thanks for your help,
Thomas