I know this is an old thread, but I found it very useful when I was setting up my VPN last year which I only wanted a few devices on the network to use.
However, the policy based routing setting seems to now function in a sensible way and I was able to get the devices passing through the vpn by specifying their IP addresses in the policy based routing box. When this box was left empty, ALL traffic passes through the VPN.
The reason why it didn't work before was because I was using the ancient (from 2013) firmware recommended on the router database page (which I now realise is known to be out of date). A quick search on this website for my router showed that I should probably be using build 34311: ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/2017/12-29-2017-r34311/tplink_tl-wdr3600v1/
This seems to work perfectly. I hope this might be helpful to someone else who experiences the same issues!
I would like to use policy based routing in a different
way.
All devices connected to the R8000 can use the VPN but
I like to have a list of special destinations for example
the VPN to my job that should NOT go over the default
VPN.
So I do not need a source-based policy routing. I need
a destination based policy based routing.
Any Advice ??
Regards
Christian
PS: Close this I was just thingking to complicated.....it's just basic routing stuff without any IPtables