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by Splines 5679 days ago
I've never used OpenVPN (and am not a network expert), but my guess is that it shims into your network stack somehow, so it's transparent to any application? Maybe, it's just a guess. Otherwise, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

I'm running a low-tech setup like this with sshd on my home router and PuTTY on my laptop, acting as a SOCKS proxy, and there are several applications that don't know how to talk to a SOCKS proxy. Luckily FF knows how to.

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> it shims into your network stack somehow

It doesn't. It merely installs a virtual network adapter and then you get creative with the routing table to pass the traffic you want through that adapter.