Yes. But curl ipinfo.io and ip addr doesn’t match. The first command contacts a server outside the network, so it shows a public IP address while the other shows the internal IP addresses of the network interfaces.

Nope, I checked the traffic with mtr and it connects directly to the internal IP address of the server. Also I’ve bound the torrent client to the network interface of the VPN to ensure the traffic goes through the VPN.

I understand. The problem with the rules above though is that it would block my regular network interface even after the VPN goes down. That’s why I created some postup and postdown rules for the Wireguard config. PostUp = iptables -I OUTPUT -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT && iptables -A OUTPUT ! -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j DROP PreDown = iptables -D OUTPUT -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT && iptables -D OUTPUT ! -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j DROP This only activates the rules while the VPN interface is on.

Why do you think that a VPN isn’t viable?

I don’t understand it, why doesn’t these commands block internet access when they block DNS traffic like the ufw command?

In your case Nobara is the perfect distro. It comes with steam preinstalled and has a lot of gaming tweaks. I used it as a daily driver a year ago, but it wasn’t something for me.

Will not happen. Privacy conscious people who have evaded Microsoft don’t use Steam. Being closed source software, they collect huge amounts of data.