NetRuleRouter

NetRuleRouter Alpha 0.1.0 Released for Selective Traffic Routing Across VPN and Direct Connections

Developer krox12 has released the first public alpha of NetRuleRouter v0.1.0-alpha.1 for Windows and Linux, a local network policy manager that routes traffic between primary and secondary connections without acting as a VPN client itself. The tool emerged from Russian government discussions in March 2026 about restricting VPN access to domestic platforms, as reported by Kommersant and RBC, which led to practical blocks on services like Gosuslugi. NetRuleRouter supports seven matching methods including exact domains, wildcard subdomains, CIDR subnets, and application names, with built-in leak protection modes that prevent protected traffic from falling back to the primary connection when the secondary link drops. It includes Russian presets directing services such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini through the secondary route while keeping banks and marketplaces on the primary internet. The alpha also provides connection tracing, rule intersection analysis, import/export of rule sets, and a first-run wizard that handles TAP adapter changes from VPN clients. Corporate VPN compatibility is supported but requires testing due to potential conflicts with existing route tables and DNS configurations.