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Use a VPN without it taking over the network
Authored by: gugod on Sep 09, '05 02:29:47PM

I think you could uncheck the "Send all traffic over VPN connection" option in the Connect/Option box from the menu of "Internet Connect.app".

By default, as the VPN connection is established, routing table is altered so that all outgoing packet are send via VPN interface. This might be the reason you mentioned in the text.



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Use a VPN without it taking over the network
Authored by: morphis on Sep 10, '05 02:05:09AM

"Send all traffic over VPN connection" is only available on MacOS X 10.4.x



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Use a VPN without it taking over the network
Authored by: kshetline on Sep 10, '05 09:29:54PM

I'm the original poster for this VPN hint... I hadn't gotten around to signing up for these forums until now.

I'd set up my VPN connection up well before updating to Tiger, and hadn't even thought to see if there were new Internet Connect options available after updating. Even after seeing this tip about "Send all traffic over VPN connection", however, I didn't find the checkbox right away, because I'd first imagined something in the configuration for each particular VPN connection, not a general setting under "Options" in Internet Connect.app for all VPN connections.

At any rate, I gave it a try, and still find the solution I posted best for my needs. With "Send all traffic over VPN connection" unchecked I don't get any DNS resolution on my company network (I'm used to the convenience, for example, of having "myusername.mycompany.com" resolve to the internal IP of my office PC when hooked up to the VPN) and only one of three subnets (172.16.x.x, with 172.17.x.x and 172.18.x.x missing) are properly routed by default. Since I'm mostly interested in the 172.18.x.x subnet, this default configuration isn't helpful.

Of course, I can do a few "add route" commands and whatnot to get things working this way... I did that manually, and it works. But here's the problem: With "Send all traffic" unchecked, Kicker.xml doesn't get kicked.

Unless there's another trick for catching the VPN log-in event (perhaps Kicker.xml is kicked, but I need a different event flag) my current set up, as per the original hint, works best for me.



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