Windows Route Add when Gateway is text instead of IP

Question

I have the following in my route table if I connect to my Company VPN.

IPv4 Route Table
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Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      192.168.0.1    192.168.0.103     41
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0         On-link      192.168.11.1      1
          8.8.8.8  255.255.255.255         On-link      192.168.11.1      1
     10.10.10.182  255.255.255.255         On-link      192.168.11.1      1

As can be seen here, the gateway "On-link" is text and not an IP address. This is routing that automatically gets added by my Company VPN. (paloaltonetworks.com GlobalProtect)

I want to remove some routes so that not all my traffic is not always going over the VPN.

So I delete the 0.0.0.0 route so that by default traffic goes over my normal internet

route DELETE 0.0.0.0

then because there is two "0.0.0.0" routes before the delete, I add in my default gateway route again

route ADD 0.0.0.0 MASK 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 METRIC 1

but now, i cant reach any of my work destinations anymore. So now i want to add routes to go to the VPN gateway, but instead of an IP address I have "On-link" So if I try to add a route to go to "On-Link" i get an error

C:\Windows\system32>route ADD 162.29.152.249 MASK 255.255.255.255 On-link
The route addition failed: The parameter is incorrect.

It also does not help to put it in quotes. So how do I get the IP-address of this gateway?

if I look at my windows network connections, I have "PANGP Virtual Ethernet Adapeter" that seems to be created by the VPN client. If I open it, and go to the TCP/IPv4 settings, I can see my VPN Ip address, and subnet mask, but the "Default gateway" is is blank.

So I don't know how to get the default gateway IP address, or how to route specific traffic over this VPN connection.

Any help will be much appreciated.

You shouldn't try to circumvent the company VPN, you are likely breaking terms of use. — Tero Kilkanen, Feb 03 '21 at 19:27
@TeroKilkanen No. He just try to able to access to internet. Just because VPN forces default route on company's internal network which has no internet. — kholis, Jun 16 '22 at 07:28
And are you sure the terms of use allow accessing internet at the same time as company internal network? — Tero Kilkanen, Jun 16 '22 at 20:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 03 '21 at 14:57

You can add on-link routes via a specific interface without explicitly mentioning the gateway address using the following syntax:

ROUTE ADD 162.29.152.249 MASK 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 IF <X>

Where <X> is the ID of the network interface, which you can find out using ROUTE PRINT.

Windows Route Add when Gateway is text instead of IP

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