# How to Keep original IP address **URL:** \ **Category:** VPN, DNS, Leaks\ **Created:** [August 29, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-keep-original-ip-address/46533 "2024-08-29T08:27:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![inthecity](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/df705f/32.png) [@inthecity](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/inthecity)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-keep-original-ip-address/46533/1 "2024-08-29T08:27:09Z")
I have VPN Server and a VPN Client. I need to insure all my connections go through my VPN Server at home. I setup a **Static Route** on my VPN Client and works like a champ on my personal devices. The problem is that in my corporate laptop works as well but it gives my IP from my home server. I need to insure my connection goes through my home server but still returning the IP from my corporate VPN otherwise some resources get blocked. I don't have admin privileges and I don't want to turn off the corporate VPN. My corporate laptop connects to the Wifi via my VPN Client router. How can I accomplish so? ---
**Author:** ![xize11](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/xize11/32/5340_2.png) [@xize11](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/xize11)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-keep-original-ip-address/46533/2 "2024-08-29T08:44:43Z")
Hmm i might get confused about your previous topic 😉 So if you have a topology like: Router with vpn client to home server \<-\> corporate laptop with the vpn program on. In theory your packets should transfer like: 1. 10.0.8.1 (assuming this is the virtual ip of your laptop vpn) 2. some exchange peering ip 3. corporate ip Outside the tunnel it goes: 1. 10.8.0.1 (routers vpn) 2. 192.168.1.1 (if you had a other router upstream) 3. exchange peering ip 4. Your home ip 5. It goes over wan at home decrypted to your corp vpn (also here you can do tracerts/traceroute) 6. Exchange peering 7. Corporate ip You can use tracert 😉, there are also phone apps for android to do a tracert so you can check between laptop and a other device if you type [google.com](http://google.com). If they are different then you know it works. If you say your laptop gets routers public vpn ip, then i think your laptop is not using the corporate vpn. ---
**Author:** ![inthecity](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/df705f/32.png) [@inthecity](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/inthecity)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-keep-original-ip-address/46533/3 "2024-08-29T09:00:01Z")
I did traceroute here's the result. I don't see anything related to my home server VPN, like if the corporate VPN was bypassing it. That's why I'm assuming it's not going through. **Scenario A):** Coorporate VPN on, VPN router Client on, VPN router Sever on. This gives back the IP generated by the corporate VPN. ```auto traceroute to www.google.com (142.251.40.100), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 170.85.73.4 (170.85.73.4) 27.217 ms 24.628 ms 11.558 ms 3 * * * 4 0.ae51.er1.ewr5.us.zip.zayo.com (216.200.64.178) 18.180 ms 14.995 ms 17.517 ms 5 * * * 6 * * * 7 72.14.215.92 (72.14.215.92) 18.357 ms 14.051 ms 14.681 ms 8 * * * 9 142.251.65.108 (142.251.65.108) 20.951 ms 142.251.65.110 (142.251.65.110) 16.918 ms 142.251.60.180 (142.251.60.180) 16.843 ms 10 108.170.235.133 (108.170.235.133) 17.905 ms 192.178.106.18 (192.178.106.18) 15.945 ms 192.178.106.20 (192.178.106.20) 21.436 ms 11 lga25s79-in-f4.1e100.net (142.251.40.100) 17.152 ms 18.183 ms 16.521 ms ``` **Scenario B):** Coorporate VPN on, VPN router Client on, VPN router Sever on. Static routing setup on the VPN router client and this gives back the IP from my home. ```auto console.gl-inet.com (192.168.8.1) 3.382 ms 2.061 ms 1.941 ms 2 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 9.248 ms 14.439 ms 7.812 ms 3 38.125.206.129 (38.125.206.129) 12.662 ms 12.397 ms 11.548 ms 4 10.0.65.98 (10.0.65.98) 9.561 ms 11.918 ms 16.241 ms 5 10.0.65.97 (10.0.65.97) 8.937 ms 9.137 ms 10.881 ms 6 10.0.64.22 (10.0.64.22) 9.902 ms 10.198 ms 12.538 ms 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 be3590.rcr24.jfk01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.24.33.169) 22.542 ms 10.406 ms 10.730 ms 10 be2897.ccr42.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.84.213) 9.737 ms be2896.ccr41.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.84.201) 17.417 ms be2897.ccr42.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.84.213) 9.396 ms 11 be3295.ccr31.jfk05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.80.2) 10.478 ms 10.343 ms be3294.ccr31.jfk05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.47.218) 10.733 ms 12 tata.jfk05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.12.18) 13.282 ms 9.748 ms 10.706 ms 13 if-be-9-2.ecore1.n75-newyork.as6453.net (63.243.128.122) 11.722 ms 63.243.218.9 (63.243.218.9) 11.050 ms 11.227 ms 14 72.14.221.146 (72.14.221.146) 15.489 ms 12.038 ms 10.782 ms 15 * * * 16 142.251.60.230 (142.251.60.230) 17.105 ms 142.250.46.196 (142.250.46.196) 10.992 ms 142.251.60.234 (142.251.60.234) 15.118 ms 17 192.178.106.162 (192.178.106.162) 13.990 ms 192.178.107.42 (192.178.107.42) 12.708 ms 192.178.106.156 (192.178.106.156) 14.310 ms 18 142.251.68.255 (142.251.68.255) 11.943 ms 209.85.255.36 (209.85.255.36) 18.046 ms 28.198 ms 19 142.251.227.116 (142.251.227.116) 17.526 ms * 142.251.227.78 (142.251.227.78) 24.739 ms 20 142.250.215.195 (142.250.215.195) 18.205 ms * * 21 72.14.239.89 (72.14.239.89) 29.400 ms 27.687 ms 192.178.81.141 (192.178.81.141) 75.177 ms 22 72.14.236.168 (72.14.236.168) 23.940 ms 142.251.68.89 (142.251.68.89) 26.766 ms 74.125.253.44 (74.125.253.44) 40.849 ms 23 216.239.47.211 (216.239.47.211) 24.162 ms 216.239.48.39 (216.239.48.39) 24.013 ms 209.85.255.255 (209.85.255.255) 23.077 ms 24 * * * ``` ---
**Author:** ![xize11](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/xize11/32/5340_2.png) [@xize11](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/xize11)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-keep-original-ip-address/46533/4 "2024-08-29T09:05:29Z")
It looks fine to me 👍 Assuming the 72.14.215.x ip is probably your corporate network or vpn gateway at home. They are different routed so that is all good. The vpn skips hops because it is encapisulated and will follow the route **directly instead of home** (i edited this), this is inside the tunnel, outside the tunnel you will see the same as the second result. If you had the same result as your second one in the laptop then it didn't work and likely the vpn of laptop was off. ---
**Author:** ![inthecity](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/df705f/32.png) [@inthecity](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/inthecity)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-keep-original-ip-address/46533/5 "2024-08-29T17:57:45Z")
Yes the 72.14.215.x is te ip from the corporate computer. Sorry, I didn't understand this part: > The vpn skips hops because it is encapisulated and will follow the route **directly instead of home** by "instead of home" you mean is not going to my VPN home Server? ---
**Author:** ![xize11](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/xize11/32/5340_2.png) [@xize11](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/xize11)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-keep-original-ip-address/46533/6 "2024-08-29T18:06:05Z")
> [@inthecity](#): > > by "instead of home" you mean is not going to my VPN home Server? No, it will go through the home vpn server, but the tunnel doesn't know about the route outside, what you see is the route inside the tunnel. With other words, it doesn't show the same hop count like outside. What i try to show you, is when you use the other device to test the trace that is the outside scope of the tunnel 😉 If that was the same trace inside the tunnel then you had a problem. You can also think it as this way: If you had multiple routers connected on wan, for each upstream router the downstream one is shown as a client ip, in your case the router at home with the vpn server also sents it to your corporate vpn but that is not what you can see inside the tunnel. ---
**Author:** ![bruce](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/user_avatar/forum.gl-inet.com/bruce/32/35649_2.png) [@bruce](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/bruce)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-keep-original-ip-address/46533/7 "2025-10-29T11:41:13Z")