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Authored by: richardflude on Sep 13, '02 09:22:20PM

Most VPN clients will drop internet access at the same time as they open a VPN connection. Most IT departments will in fact require this behaviour. This is to protect your VPN network from packets routed via your client from the internet.

This makes sense as it is likely your VPN connection has placed you onto a company's private LAN, therefore the company's security (and firewall) policy should apply, e.g. use the companies proxy for internet connections.

If you plan to bypass this feature assume your corporate IT guys will be very angry, it might even be advisable to take out some extra insurance - you'll need it when it is shown your computer was used to bypass the firewall for an attack!



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Authored by: ptwithy on Oct 31, '02 05:07:21PM

This would only be a security issue if you set your machine up to act as a gateway. By default ip forwarding is off.



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