VPN Client and the Internet

When VPN clients connect into our network they lose Internet access on their
local (workgroup) network.

Is there anyway to configure them or our Win2003 server so they can have
both a client VPN connection to our network and Internet access on their own
local network?

What kind if VPN Client - who made it? On our Cisco that's set by the
Admin and is set both in our local profile we connect with and on the
server end.

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:58:18 -0700, "Redleg6"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>When VPN clients connect into our network they lose Internet access on their
>local (workgroup) network.
>
>Is there anyway to configure them or our Win2003 server so they can have
>both a client VPN connection to our network and Internet access on their own
>local network?
>

There isn't anything that you can do at the server end. Any changes would
have to be made on the client. If they are using Windows and the builtin VPN
client you can modify the settings. By default the VPN connection becomes
the default gateway, so everything goes across the VPN link.

"Redleg6" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When VPN clients connect into our network they lose Internet access on
> their local (workgroup) network.
>
> Is there anyway to configure them or our Win2003 server so they can have
> both a client VPN connection to our network and Internet access on their
> own local network?
>
>

"Redleg6" wrote:

> When VPN clients connect into our network they lose Internet access on their
> local (workgroup) network.
>
> Is there anyway to configure them or our Win2003 server so they can have
> both a client VPN connection to our network and Internet access on their own
> local network?
>
>
What you want is called "split tunnelling".
Your VPN client computers must have a routing table that sends traffic for
one or more subnets down the VPN tunnel in preference for sending 0.0.0.0
subnet to the default gateway.
You will want to specify this so that the VPN client has access to local
resources (printers, file shares, etc) that are needed while in RDP session
with the server.

We achieve this in set-up of Cisco firewall connected to server, and a
config file for the Cisco VPN Client on our remote user's machine.

Searching Technet or all of Microsoft for "split tunnelling" +VPN should
lead you to the Microsoft way.
--
Regards
Newell White

Dear Customer,

Thanks for your post and thanks Brett, Bill and Newell for the information
sharing.

According to your description, if Windows build-in VPN Client is used in
this scenario, this issue might be caused by enabling 'use default gateway
on remote network' option in VPN Client's VPN settings.

With this option enabled, all of outgoing traffic whose destination isn't
local will be forwarded to the dial-up network after the VPN connection is
up.

You could try to disable this option on VPN Client Computer in this way:

1. In Control Panel, double-click Network Connections .

2. Right-click your Virtual Private Network Connection, click Properties ,
and then click the Networking tab.

3. Click the Internet Protocol adapter, click Properties, and then click
Advanced .

4. Uncheck the Use default gateway on remote network box, and then click OK
..

5. Click OK .

After that, please reconnect the VPN connection and check whether the
situation improve.

Please let me know the result if you finish the test.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.


Sincerely,
Neo Zhu,
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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Dear Customer,

How's everything going?

I'm wondering if the suggestion has helped or if you have any further
questions.

Please feel free to respond to the newsgroups if I can assist further.

Sincerely,
Neo Zhu,
Microsoft Online Support
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Hello,

I am not the original poster but I was also wondering how to route specific
traffic through a VPN (PPTP) connection. On your suggestion, I unchecked the
"Use default gateway on remote network box" checkbox and that has helped
some. Now my regular internet traffic continues to use the gateway in my
local network. But now the question is - what other settings do I need to
change so that only specific domains are accessed through the VPN connection.

For exmple I only want addresses that end with "somedomain.com" to go
through the VPN connection.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Routing works with IP addresses. You can only do that if you know what IP
address range those machines use. If they all used 192.168.0.0 addresses
you could route 192.168.0.0/16 through the tunnel.

"Salman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F0DC8A62-E620-423C-9357-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I am not the original poster but I was also wondering how to route
> specific
> traffic through a VPN (PPTP) connection. On your suggestion, I unchecked
> the
> "Use default gateway on remote network box" checkbox and that has helped
> some. Now my regular internet traffic continues to use the gateway in my
> local network. But now the question is - what other settings do I need to
> change so that only specific domains are accessed through the VPN
> connection.
>
> For exmple I only want addresses that end with "somedomain.com" to go
> through the VPN connection.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>