VPN - Traffic Directed at my External IP does not go through VPN Tunnel
 

Hi Maemo Community,

I have an OpenVPN client installed and working on my N900. Everything functions well, except I cannot understand why when I am connected to the VPN the traffic directed at my external IP address does NOT go through the VPN tunnel (it goes through 3G or Wi-Fi instead).

For example: If my VPN's public IP address is 208.208.208.208 and I am running an externally accessible SSH server on 208.208.208.208, if while connected to the VPN I try to SSH to 208.208.208.208 the connection does NOT go through the VPN tunnel (goes via 3G/Wi-Fi instead). However, if I try to SSH to the internal private IP address of the SSH server (let's say 10.10.0.10) then the SSH connection DOES go through the VPN tunnel.

I would very much appreciate if anyone could shed some light on why/how this is happening. Thank you!