Routing internet traffic directly instead of through VPN

I am attempting to figure out how to isolate my internet traffic from network
traffic. Right now we have two offices. One will be the host site and the
other will be the remote site. I have an Exchange server set up at the host
site so the remote site will need to access that. I am planning on allowing
access to this server from the remote site through site to site vpn's. What
I want to figure out is how can keep regular internet traffic from being
routed through the vpn also. I only want exchange traffic to pass through
the vpn and I would rather normal internet traffic be routed directly to the
hardware router that is located at the remote site. If I end up sending all
traffic across the vpn its going to create a big traffic jam at the host site
because I have so many different servers and people constantly accessing
them. Any help would be great appreciated!

That should not be a problem. A site to site VPN only routes traffic for
the other private site through the link. All other traffic goes out to the
Internet through the gateway router.

So you're saying I should leave the gateway on each machine as the internet
router, and that the Outlook will go through the VPN to access exchange? How
will it know to go across the VPN?

"Bill Grant" wrote:

> That should not be a problem. A site to site VPN only routes traffic for
> the other private site through the link. All other traffic goes out to the
> Internet through the gateway router.
>
>
>

When you setup the vpn tunnel, you specify a 'local' and 'remote' subnet.
Any traffic from the 'local' subnet that is destined for the 'remote' subnet
is sent across the tunnel. This is commonly referred to as interesting
traffic. Anything that is not interesting is sent out to the internet,
anything that is interesting is sent across the tunnel.

"Ryan B" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news3467F64-472B-4E52-A63B-(E-Mail Removed)...
> So you're saying I should leave the gateway on each machine as the
internet
> router, and that the Outlook will go through the VPN to access exchange?
How
> will it know to go across the VPN?
>
> "Bill Grant" wrote:
>
> > That should not be a problem. A site to site VPN only routes traffic
for
> > the other private site through the link. All other traffic goes out to
the
> > Internet through the gateway router.
> >
> >
> >

If the VPN router and the Internet router are different boxes with
different IPs, you will need to add some extra routing.

If they are on the same box, you simply make that box the default
gateway for the LAN. If there are two boxes, you make the the Internet
router the default gateway. You then add extra routing to get the private
traffic for the "other" site to the VPN router.