Conserve bandwidth and improve speeds by splitting your connection between your secure VPN gateway and the public internet.
Split tunneling allows you to reserve your secure VPN connections for business systems and applications and route the remaining traffic directly to the internet.
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BENEFITS
Access your internal systems via an encrypted tunnel to protect your traffic from online threats while saving VPN server capacity.
Main benefit
Route your non-critical traffic directly through your local ISP to improve speed and latency of streaming services or web browsing.
Main benefit
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Connect to a gateway near your location, decide what systems to include in your secure environment.
Invite team members and enable split tunneling in the Control Panel.
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Split tunneling guide
Split tunneling is a networking technique that allows you to connect to two networks at the same time. A common use case is accessing internal business systems and applications via a secure VPN connection and routing the remaining traffic, such as normal internet browsing, directly to the internet.
Split tunneling can help you improve latency and optimize bandwidth if you have a lot of traffic passing through your dedicated VPN gateway. In places where the gateway needs to handle a lot of traffic, routing low-risk traffic, e.g. video streaming, directly to the internet reduces the load on the VPN server.
GoodAccess supports split tunneling on the VPN gateway. By default all traffic is routed via a secure VPN tunnel. GoodAccess’ split tunneling allows you to specify domains or IP addresses that will be excluded from the tunnel.
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Inverse split tunneling allows no traffic to pass through the VPN gateway except for those destinations (IP addresses) permitted by access rules on the VPN server. Therefore, its primary function is to add a layer of security to the allowlisted systems/applications, rather than as a bandwidth optimization technique.
Split tunneling can void certain access policies, such as content restrictions, if these are configured on the VPN gateway. In such a case internet traffic is routed directly and the policy rules cannot be applied.
Moreover, it can represent a security hazard, because the part of the traffic which is routed via the local ISP is not encrypted, and can therefore be hijacked by attackers on unsecured public networks.