Re: [PCTECH] VPN questions

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When you say surf the Internet, you mean through your home connection,
right?  That is not the fault of VPN, it is the fault of faulty routing
tables your company is passing onto you.  They should have it setup where
data for their specific network goes over the VPN and everything else goes
over your cable modem.

As for the restrictions to the rest of their network, that is a security
implementation put in place by your company.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:23 PM
Subject: [PCTECH] VPN questions


> Esteemed listers,
>
> I am going to be taking home the iSeries Access and Cisco VPN Client
install
> CD-ROMs so that I can connect to our iSeries from home.
>
> I am told that, once I activate a VPN connection, I lose my ability to
surf
> the internet at large from my ISP.  (I am told that I will only be able to
> access the iSeries; the rest of the network will be unavailable via remote
> access.)
>
> Is this the nature of VPN?
>
> FWIW, my connection is via cable modem, and I am using a GigaFast router.
>
> >From the manual: This router supports only PPtP Packet Pass-Through.
> Neither L2tP (Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol) nor IPSEC (Internet Protocol
> Security) are supported.  The router itself does not have a VPN function.
> It allows PPtP Packet Pass-Through.
>
> tia,
> db
>
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