VPN Question

[Guest]

Hi,

I connect to our office through my Vista Business laptop and ISA 2004 at the
office. When I do, if I want to go out to the Internet, I go through the VPN
connection which takes me into our office network and out to the Internet.
This obviously slows things down. How can I go out to the Internet without
going through the VPN connection?

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Hi,

I connect to our office through my Vista Business laptop and ISA 2004 at
the
office. When I do, if I want to go out to the Internet, I go through the
VPN
connection which takes me into our office network and out to the Internet.
This obviously slows things down. How can I go out to the Internet without
going through the VPN connection?

What VPN? If its the built-in PPTP VPN client you can uncheck the use
default gateway option in the VPN connection properties. Note the potential
security risks in doing this...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1003.mspx

Otherwise some VPN connections (OpenVPN for example) can or do control this
on the server side and you have no control over that.

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[Guest]

Al,

Thank you for your response. I am using the built-in PPTP VPN client.

My question is how do I tell IE not to use the default gateway? If I uncheck
"Do not use default gateway", would that not affect all my applications i.e.
Outlook, IE and others. I'd like everything to use the VPN connection so that
I can connect to things that are in the corporate network. I want only the IE
NOT to use the VPN connection. How can I set this up? Again, thanks for your
response.
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Thanks,

Sam

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Al,

Thank you for your response. I am using the built-in PPTP VPN client.

My question is how do I tell IE not to use the default gateway? If I
uncheck
"Do not use default gateway", would that not affect all my applications
i.e.
Outlook, IE and others. I'd like everything to use the VPN connection so
that
I can connect to things that are in the corporate network. I want only the
IE
NOT to use the VPN connection. How can I set this up? Again, thanks for
your
response.

Not natively. If your the network/server admin you might look at using CMAK
to setup a custom connection, routing, etc for your users that would
probably do that. More information is in this RRAS team blog entry...

http://blogs.technet.com/rrasblog/archive/2007/06/11/split-tunnelling-using-cmak.aspx

I'm not a server guy so that is the best I can come up with. Good luck...

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[Jeffrey Randow]

If you disable the "Use default network gateway", you will still have
access to the network resources behind the VPN - even internal
websites, Outlook, etc.

It isn't safe, per se, because you are able to bypass any protections
your office network admin provides and you can provide a conduit to
otherwise infect or damage the internal network with your
"unprotected" computer.

BTW: Hi Al!

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Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006
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