Everybody talks about BGP and assumes it’s as easy as just simply routing out the internet gateway. This is what most ISPs and Cloud providers do is just advertise their paths. A truly high-performance cloud provider will have multiple connections to multiple backbones and use ToS and try special paths to certain IPs. This is…
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Routing some traffic over a VPN
Sometimes, it helps to route just some traffic over a VPN. It doesn’t make sense to add a lot of latency to your vpn if you don’t need it. So here’s the magic. This only works if you have your own OpenVPN server. (See my post on using Amazon’s free tier to make it happen)….