Huh, hadn’t heard about MLO before, any use cases you’ve found particularly compelling? No sweat if you don’t want to elaborate much more, I’m honestly not sure how wise it is to be posting these kinds of details in the first place lol.
I use Mullvad too, with similar workarounds needed. Though I actually run an entirely distinct Internet connection, separate account and provider, for all work devices. It’s an extra expense in an era where I’d really like to find less of those, but the peace of mind from that kind of strong separation, with zero ongoing effort, is second to none.
I just keep the guest wifi un-VPN’ed and pop over to that (or similar) when something is having issues with Mullvad. It’s not perfect but it’s infrequent enough and meets my needs mostly. I used to play exit node whack-a-mole but rarely need to switch that these days.
The sus devices go on the guest network, which has no VPN, and which is on a separate VLAN from the main network. I could’ve been more clear, my b.
Keeps things like Rokus and other consumer electronics type stuff isolated from the rest of the network, and not complaining about the VPN / getting confused about locality.