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List:       vpn
Subject:    Re: I'm looking for a VPN Client...
From:       Jon Carnes <jonc () haht ! com>
Date:       2001-05-10 13:13:25
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Typically there is a checkbox or some configuration along the lines of :
  Use Default Gateway on Remote Network

If this is unchecked, then the 0.0.0.0 (default) route is left alone, and
only traffic for the remote network is routed down the VPN.

You should feel free to adjust your own routing tables.  There is no "magic"
gained by heaping all the responsibility onto the VPN client.  You can
substitute a script that calls the VPN dialup and afterwards adjusts the
routes.

We do this for our consulting folks when they are attaching to larger
corporate networks that have multiple internal addresses.  The vpn dial-up
goes in without changing their default route so that they can access the
local network and the Internet.  We then run a script which adds the remote
routes and points them to the VPN as their gateway.

Jon Carnes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Young" <dougy@BRYDEN.APANA.ORG.AU>
To: <VPN@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a VPN Client...


> > In the three "client to LAN" software packages I have used, I have
> not found
> > a way, at the client end, to allow local internet use, and then the
> vpn for
> > specific routes.  I could still allow internet connectivity from the
> > "VPN server" end of the VPN connection (from the corporate internet
> link),
> > but not Internet and VPN access at the "client end".
> >
> Is this typical of *nix VPN ??
>
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