When VPN is turned off, ethernet stops working

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Hello! I’m having a baffling (to me) problem with my network, where I can connect to ethernet fine with my VPN, but when it’s shut off, I get no internet access, although the “connected to ethernet” symbol remains. I’ve tried setting the ethernet to auto-acquire IP and DNS, (which it already was set to, so I took it off that and back on) and I’ve tried resetting my network settings. I’ve not tried clearing the DNS cache and manually entering DNS servers because I don’t feel I have the expertise or understanding to do that without risking really messing up something, but if y’all think that’s the solution, I’m willing to try (provided I can get slightly more specific help than “reset it” :p). Thanks!

EDIT: restarting the router fixed it. Didj’t think to try that because I hadn’t noticed any issues with other devices.

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check your kill switch configuration.

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already did, and it had no effect. probably worth mentioning that this is a problem that didn’t exist until recently, by which I mean I was able to toggle the vpn on and off just fine without running into this
ty for the advice regardless

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does your nic run off of usb? if it does you might try changing usb ports. good luck with this.

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Looks like it was a router issue, and restarting that fixed it. thanks again regardless! (gonna edit the post to solved shortly)