VPN is the acronym for Virtual Private Network - a network type that uses a the Internet to provide remote networks or single machines with secure access to their organization's network avoiding expensive leased lines.
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How to selectively route network traffic through VPN on Mac OS X Leopard?
I don't want to send all my network traffic down to VPN when I'm connected to my company's network (via VPN) from home. For example, when I'm working from home, I would like to be able to backup my ...
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How can I make the Windows VPN route selective traffic (by destination network)?
I want to use a Windows VPN but only for a particular network, so that it doesn't take over my entire network connection.
e.g., Instead of the VPN becoming the default route, make it only the route ...
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How to VPN on demand Mac OS X?
I'm trying to configure the Snow Leopard's VPN on demand service without success
I've tried the following domain+configuration pairs but none of them have worked:
domain.net default
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What is VPN actually used for?
I've never really understood why VPNs are used. I know it stands for Virtual Private Network, but in simple terms how does it work and what is it used for?
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Low bandwidth Windows wallpaper
I connect to several different machines over a VPN using windows remote desktop. I would like to find several low bandwidth friendly wallpapers to distinguish one machine from another. It's not that ...
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How to set up simple VPN for secure Internet connections over unencrypted Wi-Fi?
I recently moved into an apartment where the complex provides free unencrypted Wi-Fi. The speed is good for my purposes, but I'm not 100% comfortable with all my traffic being sent in the clear, given ...
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Can Windows 7 Built-in VPN Replace Cisco VPN?
Is there any way that the built-in VPN interface in Windows 7 can replace the rediculous Cisco VPN software? I have tried several times using different methods and have failed. It seems if you just ...
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Why does connecting to my work VPN cause my internet to not work?
I VPN to my work, and then I terminal server into my computer.
Everything works fine in relation to the VPN access, but locally I can't access the internet.
How can I fix this?
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How to force split tunnel routing on Mac to a Cisco VPN
Any one know how to hack the routing table (on a mac) to defeat the forcing of VPN routing for every thing over a cisco VPN? pretty much what I want to do is have only 10.121.* and 10.122.* addresses ...
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VPN: Does all traffic get routed through the VPN when I am logged in?
If I log into a slow VPN with only a 15k/s connection, when I try to go to kernel.org or some other site to download something, is everything getting routed through that other network? (so my max ...
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How can I get Cisco VPN to work on Windows 8 x64?
My university uses Cisco VPN Client for off-campus network access. We're using client version 5.0.07.0440, which doesn't appear to work with Windows 8. The installation completes with no problem, but ...
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Bypass VPN for certain apps
I connect to my company VPN for email, intranet, fileshare etc, but when I'm working I also like to listen to Spotify which is blocked through the company network, so I have to disconnect to the VPN ...
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Mac OS X 10.8 VPN Server: Bypass VPN for LAN traffic (routing LAN traffic to secondary connection)
I have somewhat of an odd setup for a VPN server with OS X Mountain Lion. It's essentially being used as a bridge to bypass my company's firewall to our extranet connection - certain things our team ...
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OS X >10.6.5 DNS Lookup Order with VPN
After updating to OS X 10.6.5 (from .4), applications don't seem to be looking up host names in the correct order (according to the service order in Network Preferences) when my VPN is connected.
My ...
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How do I setup Ubuntu/Linux's Network manager to selectively route network traffic through the VPN?
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and I just noticed that ALL of my network traffic is being routed through my VPN. I would like the VPN to route only the traffic hitting servers on the VPN and then connect ...
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What is the difference between a proxy and a VPN?
There are several service providers out there that allow a user to circumvent firewalls or anonymize their web access.
Some of them use proxies, some use VPNs. Most people say that VPNs usually work ...
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Puzzling TCP performance over 3G / UMTS
I'm using 3G as my primary internet connection, and TCP over this thing is getting more puzzling every day. For example:
Downloading from kernel.org is crazy fast:
$wget ...
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Accept incoming L2TP connections on Windows 7
Windows 2003 can be configured as a VPN server that uses L2TP with a preshared key.
Windows 7 can be configured to accept incoming VPN connections, presumably using PPTP.
Is there a way to configure ...
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OpenVPN client as SOCKS 5 server?
Are there any Windows applications that can connect to a remote OpenVPN server then act like a SOCKS 5 server in the local environment?
EDIT: which means
a local server
speaks VPN/OpenVPN ...
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64 bit OS and VPN software
I am using 64 bit Vista but as a consultant I find it very frustrating when clients use proprietary(Cisco usually) VPN software that will only work with a 32 bit OS. I am not interested in a dual ...
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Where to download Juniper Network Connect 7
I have a client that needs to connect to his VPN.
He uses Juniper Network connect though he currently doesnt have it installed.
I want to install it for him but I unable to download from Junipers ...
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OS X 10.6.4 System VPN failing to connect - IKE Packet: transmit failed
I'm trying to connect to several Cisco VPN networks using the OS X built-in VPN utility and I'm receiving an error. I have several isolated networks I connect to and they have all been working ...
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VPN for a small organization
I am in charge of a small office network that has < 10 users.
I want to be able to offer them access to the network from their home internet connections. At the moment we have a regular ...
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Increasing network speed on low bandwidth
I'm struggling with the following issue:
Given a computer with low-medium CPU/RAM capabilities, and an extremely poor network connection. Poor means here 10-15 kb/s. I would like to do something to ...
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What is “Disable class based route addition” good for?
In the advanced TCP/IP settings of a VPN connection, i found a checkbox labeled with "Disable class based route addition". The checkbox is only enabled as long as "Use default gateway on remote ...
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How To Use Local Internet Connection To Access Internet While Still Connected with VPN [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I make the Windows VPN route selective traffic (by destination network)?
I need to connect to VPN for work purposes, but I want to be able to use my own internet ...
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VPN sharing on Mac OS X 10.5 machine
I have a rather weird problem. I want to share a VPN connection that has been established by my Mac OS X 10.5 computer with another machine in my network. This is what I did:
In the /etc/hostcongig ...
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Can a router create a VPN for me?
I have a Linksys WRT110 router & an ASUS SuperSpeedN RT-N12 router.
Will either of these — possibly with my putting on third-party firmware — support VPNs? By that, I mean, by creating the VPN, ...
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Can a company use VPN to spy on me?
I'm about to work with a company on a development project, but they first need to set up a pretty complicated environment, and suggested they use VPN to work on my machine to do this. Should I be ...
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An equivalent of ssh port-tunneling for Windows servers?
my home is Linux servers where SSH can always be used to get around a slightly-too-restrictive firewall. At work however, all of the servers we deal with are Windows based.
I'm needing to connect to ...
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Using a Mac to share a VPN connection
I am using an iMac to share a wired network connection with other devices in my house. I am using Apple's built-in sharing functionality which works very well.
I have also been using Tunnelblick as ...
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SSH Tunnel doesn't work in China
Last year I was working in China for a few months. I never bothered setting up a real VPN, but just created a SSH tunnel, and changed my browsers proxy settings to connect through it.
Everything ...
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Remote Desktop fails after VPN connection
The local computer (comp 1) is connected to a remote computer (comp 2) with Remote Desktop. On the remote computer (comp 2), I try to establish an VPN connection to a different remote computer (comp ...
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iPhone PPTP cannot use VPN DNS server
My PPTP server allows my laptop to resolve internal domain names fine and I can see that the DHCP server is handing my PPTP client the proper DHCP settings.
When I connect through the iPhone, I don't ...
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Install VPN client issue
I'm trying to install the Shrew VPN client. In the process of installation an error occurs:
Error 0x800f0203: Couldn't install the network component.
It occurs when the installer tries to ...
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Windows 7 VPN stops web browser
I've just installed Windows 7 RTM and setup Windows VPN to work office. It all works fine except, when the VPN is connected, regular web access stops working eg: local web browser can't connect to ...
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Secure Connection from Insecure Computer
I am going to be traveling out of the country to a pretty questionable area and I would like to be able to access my online banking while I am away. If I were taking my own computer, this wouldn't be ...
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Using a Raspberry Pi as a VPN?
So I'm sure many of you have heard of the new Raspberry Pi project. I was looking at messing around with Model B, which has the following relevant specs:
Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS ...
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How do I setup a Gnome 3.2 VPN connection (Fedora 16)
I just switched to Gnome 3 on a new laptop to try it out. Lots of things are different, but I think I can get used to them. But I'm having a real problem trying to figure out how to get the new ...
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Connect two home networks via VPN
I've got two home networks (LANs in 2 locations) which i want to connect together so that PCs from both networks can be accessed from any other PC on any of those two networks.
I far as i know it's ...
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Stop VPN being used on internet traffic on Win 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I make the Windows VPN route selective traffic (by destination network)?
How To Use Local Internet Connection To Access Internet While Still Connected with VPN
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VirtualBox: VPN networking test environment
I want to setup VirtualBox instances of Ubuntu guest to make a VPN test network. The host is Windows 7 Ultimate.
My hope is to setup a VirtualBox instance which represents a gateway for the test ...
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Is it possible to connect to OpenVPN on Windows, without a 3rd-party client?
The title says it all. Is it possible to connect to OpenVPN from Windows 7, without using a 3rd party VPN client? Can I use the native Windows VPN functionality alone?
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How to configure ShrewSoft VPN to connect to Cisco VPN Server?
What are the steps to connect to a Cisco VPN server using the ShrewSoft VPN Client?
It's important to note that there are different kinds of Cisco VPN connections:
Cisco VPN with pre-shared key ...
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VPN through NetworkManager in Debian?
I just switched over to Debian from Ubuntu and I can't seem to figure out how to add a VPN connection through network manager. When I select the VPN tab from Edit Connections the Add button is ...
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Set up a home VPN to allow web browsing from remote network
If I set up an XP-based VPN server using the following instructions (I think this is a fairly standard method):
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm
Will I be able to connect ...
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How to make a local web server visible from the internet *without* setting up port forwarding on the router?
I develop websites on my (high-end) laptop, and I work from a variety of physical locations.
I would like to save the hassle of constantly synchronizing with an externally visible web server in order ...
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Why use a VPN connection? [closed]
I've been reading the news about Lulzsec and I was wondering why they use a VPN before connecting to Tor or proxy servers?
The latter 2 can be used for hiding your identity so why is the VPN used ...
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Cisco VPN stops Windows 7 Browsing
My browsing and other 'internet' activity (dropbox,digsby etc) halts when I connect to a VPN session using Cisco Systems VPN client Version 5.0.04.0300 on Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit on my Dell XPS ...
