[vpn] VPN and Browsing at Same Time

Michael Portz Michael.Portz at a1-net.de
Fri Mar 8 04:12:31 EST 2002


Hi Eddie!

What client are you using? Most clients let you choose, whether to use your
VPN Gateway as "Exclusive Gateway" or not. If you do so, ALL traffic to
the Internet is sent via the VPN Gateway. Although this setting is of course
more secure (no packets can slip out unencrypted) it poses the mentioned
restrictions on your Internet use. There are two solutions:
1. You find the switch in your clients setting and turn it off.
2. You ask your LANs sysop to accept your http-request on the VPN gateway,
     route it to your LANs internet gateway und pass it into the Internet.

Good luck, and remember: We all love to hear success stories!
;)
Michael

Eddie Harrison wrote:

 > Hi,
 >
 > I'm new to the VPN stuff and don't know exactly how it works with a typical. I have a problem 
that I hope someone can help me with or at least tell me if it's typical and that I'll have to live 
with it.
 >
 >  I have a pc at home that connects via DSL. I have a software VPN that routes to my company's 
email server so that I can receive Lotus Notes email.  With the current setup (my company set this 
up) I can not browse the web while I am connected to the VPN to receive email. I receive a "page not 
found" error as though there is no DNS available. I must disconnect the VPN and sometimes even have 
to reboot before I can go back to browsing. As you might imagine, this poses a huge problem in that 
any link that I receive in an email can't be used without a copy/paste into the browser once I have 
shut the VPN down.
 >
 > Is this typical of VPNs and is there a way around it?
 >
 > Thanks in advance for any help.
 >


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