Linux routing tables while using a PPTP VPN...

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I'm trying to basically do this... I want to be able to connect to a PPTP VPN, download a file via wget using the VPNs connection, all while the normal Internet is still alive on the non-VPN connection (a normal VPN would route all traffic through the VPN interface - I don't want that in this instance).

I can't figure out what the hell is going on. I have it so I can use the VPN interface to ping an outside network, but I can't use wget to download a file - it just hangs @ connecting.

Here's my ifconfig:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:ef:8c:86 
inet addr:192.168.1.24 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::ba27:ebff:feef:8c86/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10492 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7592 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:5162181 (4.9 MiB) TX bytes:1044909 (1020.4 KiB)


lo Link encap:Local Loopback 
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
inet addr:172.20.0.7 P-t-P:174.34.146.210 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1392 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
RX bytes:396 (396.0 B) TX bytes:402 (402.0 B)

And here's my "route" command output:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default OpenWrt.lan 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
atl-c01.ipvanis OpenWrt.lan 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0
atl-c01.ipvanis * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

This is all while the PPTP VPN connection is active. What the hell am I doing wrong that would allow me to ping an outside IP via the VPN connection (using ping -I ppp0 google.com) but not use wget --bind-address=172.20.0.7 google.com to connect an outside IP via TCP?

Also, when I use the route command route add default ppp0 the traffic from everything is routed through the VPN successfully, including TCP.

Thanks.