VPN question

[ritcH]

I recently setup vpn on my computer at uni because the network there was blocking steam. However, the uni network was fast otherwise and so my question is, while I'm connected to my home computer over VPN is it possible to assign certain tasks to use the VPN connection (i.e., steam) and other tasks (i.e., firefox) to use the university's connection?

At the moment if I want to use a service that isn't banned I just disconnect the VPN but it would be handy if I could cut out this step.

 

[wonko]

You should be able to do it by changing the VPN properties to not use the default gateway on the remote network. Then have a look at the route add command, which should allow you to route traffic to steam and other selected IPs via the VPN.
It's been a few years since I did this, and one problem I recall is that the VPN can get a different interface id each time it is setup (on XP, anyway), which you need for the route add command, meaning it can't be set up as a persistent route. I wrote a script to automate this which used ipconfig to find the interface name then issued the route add command. I can try to dig it out if it would help.
Of course there might be a much easier way to do it... anyone?