Whenever I would connect to the clipmarks VPN from my Mac, it would attempt to send all my traffic over the VPN, effectively cutting me off from the rest of the web.

This hint tells you how to stop sending all traffic to the VPN, and that did the trick for me - I can connect to our server and stay online.

If you need to set up a direct route to one of the machines behind the VPN, read the rest of this hint at the source.

This is awesome, thx! It's so easy to do on a PC that I ignorantly assumed it wasn't possible on mac since there was no obvious way of doing it.