Multiple outgoing VPN connections from XP client?

[Tom C.]

Is XP capable of running two separate VPN connections to two separate
networks simultaneously? I have a VPN to our office LAN running usually, and
now I have a Checkpoint VPN set up that I use to connect to a customer's
network for some development I'm doing. When I start the Checkpoint VPN, the
VPN to the office LAN quits and I can't seem to run them simultaneously.
Should I be able to, or is this a known limitation of XP? Thanks.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Is XP capable of running two separate VPN connections to two separate
networks simultaneously? I have a VPN to our office LAN running usually,
and now I have a Checkpoint VPN set up that I use to connect to a
customer's network for some development I'm doing. When I start the
Checkpoint VPN, the VPN to the office LAN quits and I can't seem to run
them simultaneously. Should I be able to, or is this a known limitation of
XP? Thanks.

More than likely this is a split tunnel issue where the Cisco VPN client
disables any access to your local network or the internet. Meaning all
traffic is routed through the Cisco VPN tunnel to your work network. Contact
your work administrators about this. They may, or may not, be willing to
disable that. I don't use the Cisco VPN client so I can't say whether or not
its a client side configurable or a server side configurable (ie. like
OpenVPN for example).

FYI, the MS PPTP VPN client allows the user to disable/enable the split
tunnel on the client end.

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