How to route certain applications through a VPN and others to use my 'standard' connection in OSX 10.6?

Question

I am currently working abroad and use my company's VPN for FTP and some browsing. This is a relatively slow connection and while it is suitable for those VPN necessities; much of my other internet usage can be done without the VPN at a much higher speed.

Is there a way to tell Safari and my FTP software to use the VPN and for all other connections to go directly to the internet.

I am currently using OSX's Network Prefs for running my VPN connection.

Ta

Answer 1

This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but you can bypass the VPN's gateway so that anything outside the subnet will not use the VPN:

How to use own internet connection for browsing, while connected to work VPN?