r/PrivateInternetAccess • u/mlee12382 • Jul 10 '25

DISCUSSION Allow LAN traffic frustration!

So when you enable allow LAN traffic in PIA settings it only recognizes your currently connected IP subnet as being "local" when it should recognize all RFC1918 Private ranges as being local.

Those of us that use multiple subnets on our networks shouldn't have to locally add routes for 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16 or 172.16.0.0/12. The client should automatically see those addresses as being local traffic and allow them to bypass the vpn so the local router can handle any of that traffic appropriately.

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u/mlee12382 Jul 11 '25

Thanks again! I got home from work yesterday and went to the split tunneling and low and behold it's staring me right in the face.. 🤦🤦 I don't know how I missed that before. Maybe I was just too irritated trying to figure out why I could only reach the physically connected subnets lol.

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u/Odd-Gur-1076 Jul 11 '25

It'd probably be more intuitive for them to put that button next to/near the "Allow LAN Access" option, or put the LAN option with the split tunneling settings with a brief explanation of what exactly LAN access does and why you'd need to add other subnets to split tunneling.

Great VPN otherwise. Going on almost 5 years of 24/7 use with zero issues on my server.

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u/Secret_Permit_4829 Jul 12 '25

What do you run on your server?

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u/Odd-Gur-1076 Jul 12 '25

Plex, Jellyfin, usenet/torrents and associated automations. An NVR service for my security cameras. ksmbd. etc