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You could always go with an edge gateway routing policy. Set it up that the box running the torrents only has one path out to go through the tunnel.
This is the way. I use OPNsense, and maintain an alias group of all the hosts I want directed to my VPN gateway server.
I'm working on getting an opnsense client together but money is tight so this is definitely the route I'm going to go once I am able.
Yeah, I hear you. Took me a while to put a little cash together for my setup too. I ended up keeping my eyes peeled on the ex-enterprise auction sites, and picked up for cheap a couple of HP DL360s.
Yes, I now have the problem on the other side of managing my power bills, but I'm nearly ready to add a battery to my solar setup, so hopefully that's not a problem for too much longer.
Power draw can suck, my stack uses almost 1Kw, but it makes a nice white noise machine/space heater. Really if you're not getting too fancy a regular consumer router with VPN support can do the job at a fractuon of the power draw, but they lack a lot of options.
I've been tryining to switch to a virtualized firewall to take one box offline but OPn hasn't been playing nice with XCP-ng as far as not murdering the throughput and if a I'm going through the effort may as well get off pfSense at the same time.
I have mine sitting in my garage (currently saving for a rack to hold everything), so noise and heat aren't a major problem.
You're right re a consumer-grade router doing the same job, but my setup wasn't only about OPNsense. I spent many years running a low power setup - RasPis, etc - but then found I was frustrated by the lack of real grunt in the compute department. Plus I wanted to play with Proxmox.
That’s almost $2.50/day here and we have comparatively low electric rates.