Content Filtering is becoming increasingly popular amongst Politicians, ISPs and generally clueless do-gooders.
The problem is, whatever you think of their motives, it's generally poorly implemented and interferes with the end-users browsing experience, even when it's not supposed to (the image to the right appeared with filtering off! - click to enlarge).
As we've been Usurping the BTHomeHub with a Raspberry Pi, we're going to take a brief break to implement some useful functionality that the HomeHub didn't provide.
In this Part, we're going to configure our Raspberry Pi to connect to an OpenVPN server and route some of our traffic over the tunnel - depending on the destination IP (i.e. Split tunnelling). This will allow us to easily bypass the troublesome content filtering, whilst not un-necessarily introducing any latency to any connection that is (for the time being at least) unaffected by the filters.
Note: We'll be manually specifying the connections that are routed via VPN, so that we can 'whitelist' mistakes such as the EFF and Wikipedia, whilst still being 'protected' against other filtered pages.
Unless otherwise stated, all commands need to be run as root