Questions tagged [vpn]
Virtual private network; a network that connects remote sites or users via the Internet using virtual connections so that devices can communicate as if they were on a private network.
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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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Use VPN connection only for selected applications
I have access to a VPN and want to use it only for some applications, not all.
For example:
If I connect to a VPN I want only the applications Opera and Newsbin to use that VPN connection. All other ...
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How to use one connection to the Internet for VPN and another for accessing other websites?
I have two network cards. If I connect to a network using VPN then to access other websites I have to pass through a proxy server.
Is it possible to use my other network card to connect to the ...
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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 safeguard PPTP connection - Windows 7?
There is a computer connecting to a VPN. The network should remain offline, if the machine can't reconnect to the VPN. It should not ever use the normal connection. Only the VPN one.
Is there a way ...
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Windows 7 VPN how to not tunnel internet? [duplicate]
I just put windows 7 on my work laptop and im setting it all up like it used to be. But i cant remember what option i changed to stop my internet traffic being tunneled over the VPN connection. I only ...
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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 all ...
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Bind application to a specific network interface
I have tried ForceBindIP, but it has a significant downside - it doesn't affect the children of the application I'm trying to bind, it only affects the application itself. It also can't force an ...
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Create shortcut to dial VPN connection in Windows 8
It was easy to create a shortcut that automatically dials a VPN connection in Windows 7 (e.g., see these answers). But if I create that shortcut in Windows 8, double-clicking it opens the Networks ...
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2 Internet connections with VPN
I am connecting to a VPN through my home computer but when I am connected to the VPN I can no longer access the internet on my personal PC. I need to then remote desktop into my PC at work to get ...
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Stop Windows 7 from clobbering one VPN when connecting to a second?
I currently connect to my network drives at work using a VPN.
I run Windows 7, updated weekly-ish.
(Updates often interrupt me, so I don't have them automatic anymore.
I don't suspect this is related, ...
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Blocking a website using "hosts" file doesn't work when using a VPN
I'm trying to use Windows' hosts file to block a specific website, but my problem is that while using a VPN it doesn't get blocked at all, and without a VPN it gets blocked on Chrome but not on ...
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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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Windows 10 windows VPN IPv4 properties not accessible
I just installed Windows 10 and I want to join my domain through my windows VPN. But when I want to change the properties of the IPv4 protocol, nothing happens.
The button is NOT greyed out. (I ...
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Best method of transferring files over internet? [closed]
I have a small server(running Ubuntu 9.10) at my (parent's) house and will be leaving it there once I go to college this fall. Currently I'm using samba to transfer files between computers, but I was ...
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Is it possible to route only a specific application through a VPN?
I've recently purchased a VPN from vpntunnel.se and was wondering if it was possible to use it for specific applications (Firefox, xchat etc)
Also i'm having a little trouble setting up the the VPN ...
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When using a VPN, would my ISP still be able to read my internet traffic?
If I'm using a VPN service such as this, would my ISP still be able to read my internet traffic?
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How to run a web server on my PC without static ip
I have two related questions:
1- When I see my global IP address in a website like https://whatismyipaddress.com/, which is for example X.X.X.X, I think this is not only mine, and a lot of people who ...
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How can I force Windows 7 to use specific network adapters per program?
I am using Hamachi VPN. I want to setup Windows 7 to use the Hamachi VPN network adapter for specific software on my system; other softwares should use the regular network adapters.
Is this possible ...
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Change VPN in Windows 7 from command line
How can I change my VPN connection settings in Windows 7 from the command line? I know how to do it using the GUI but I really need to do it from the console.
I need to change the user, password and ...
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How to connect to a VirtualBox guest OS through a VPN?
I have an Oracle Linux guest running a web server in VirtualBox on a Windows 7 Host. I need to set the networking up so that I can do 3 things:
the host can connect to the guest through a browser and ...
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Windows 10 DNS resolution via VPN connection not working
In Windows 10, when connected to a VPN with Split Tunneling enabled (Gateway disabled), DNS resolution always uses the LAN DNS servers, ignoring the DNS servers and the DNS Suffix set on the VPN ...
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No internet connection Ubuntu-WSL while VPN
I have a Ubuntu-20.04 Version 2 WSL running on my Windows 10 Laptop. Everything works fine, I have internet connection. But only as long as I am not connected to a VPN network.
If I connect to my the ...
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In Windows 10 how do you ensure all traffic goes through VPN?
What is the easiest way to ensure all traffic goes through the VPN in Windows 10? Are there any built in ways? I'm basically looking for an internet kill switch in the case the VPN fails.
I read that ...
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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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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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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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How to connect to a VPN at startup?
I need to have a computer at a branch office automatically connect to the corporate VPN to simplify the login process (not forcing the user to press network login down the right).
The client machine ...
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Rerouting local LAN and Internet traffic when in VPN
I'm connecting to a VPN which doesn't allow split tunneling and basically reroutes my Internet traffic through, which is slow. Additionally and more importantly, this also effectively removes my ...
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Single-Click to connet to VPN on Windows 10
I'm creating a batch file to connect to VPN on Windows 10 by a Single-Click. The VPN is using PPTP. Below is the command I've tried and different problems I faced:
1) rasphone -d "VPN NAME"**
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Cisco AnyConnect profile keeps getting overwritten
I'm using Cisco AnyConnect 3.1.04059 (on a Windows 7 - I'm an admin) to connect to work's VPN. I have located the profile that is stored locally that's being used by the client. But when I make ...
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How can you automatically run a script after connecting to a VPN on OS X?
I have configured the VPN connection in OS X 10.7.3, but since the network I'm connecting to uses a corporate proxy, has custom Maven repository servers, and other network-specific settings (remote ...
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SSH error ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
I am trying to access ssh to a server but got "ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer". The same client works well when I move the computer to home but show the error when the ...
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Routing a particular subnet into a VPN tunnel
My network looks like this:
I'm trying configure my router so that the subnet (192.168.2.0/24) is routed over the VPN tunnel (tun0) on the gateway/router.
While at the same time clients on the ...
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OpenVPN: Route only specific subnetwork through vpn - works for single IP adresses
I was trying to route only specific subnet/single through open vpn.
I have read several questions like this on superuser, and even found
good answer to my question.
So I am now able to route single ...
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How can I block a certain website using hosts file even if I'm connected to a VPN?
In order to block some certain sites, I use the following codes in my hosts file:
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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How to bridge tap to eth0 on raspberry pi?
I am using my raspberry pi as a openvpn cleint for my xbox 360 because at my college i get kicked off xbox live for either strict nat type or a connection limit. I can connect to the vpn just fine, i ...
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Allow incoming remote desktop connection when connected to VPN
Environment: Windows 10, Cisco AnyConnect Client
I have a PC at home. I often connect to it when I am out of the home. However, I have to use a VPN client to get in touch of my servers. And the ...
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Is it possible to access a remote computer when it is connected a VPN?
I am trying to access my home computer remotely (through http). I did a quick test yesterday, and it was fine. But today, I started the VPN on it this morning, it is sending all traffic through it. ...
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Could local ISP capture my location whenever i launch a VPN to a VPN server?
I am extremely concerned that my ISP collects any information once I am connected to a VPN server. For instance, as far as I know, when I start a connection to a HotSpotShield VPN server, an IP ...
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Start configured VPN from command line (OSX)
I have two VPN configurations on my mac and I would like to be able to start them from the console when I ssh into my machine.
I have found the command networksetup which allows me to configure ...
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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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How to load tun module in linux?
I cannot manage to load the tun module in my ArchLinux box. I’m trying
to connect with OpenVPN, but the log says:
nm-openvpn[6662]: Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No such device (errno=...
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How can I disable 'Use default Gateway for remote networks' setting in Windows 10?
I have been disabling the 'use default gateway for remote networks' option to bypass unnecessary traffic from going through vpn. But after upgrading to Windows 10 I can't change the setting since the ...
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Setting DNS servers using OpenVPN client config file
How can I set DNS servers on the client using only the client configuration. My client is a windows machine and I want to change the DNS servers when the client connects and revert back to the ...
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How to route internet connection through teamviewer's VPN?
I'm trying to VPN to my home computer using teamviewer.
i can connect successfully and can easily see the shared files/folders. But I also want my internet to go through this vpn connection so that I ...
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How to force only Chrome to send network traffic through VPN connection on Windows 7?
So basically I have connected to a VPN and I want Chrome to use the DNS servers from the VPN network and also send network traffic through that WAN miniport (VPN tunnel). Everything else (Windows ...
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Access my home network printer while I am using VPN to connect to work
When I work from home, I am connected to the resources in my company via VPN. In my home network there is a network printer in the same local network.
The problem is that when I open VPN to my ...
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OpenVPN client as SOCKS 5 server? [closed]
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
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Connecting to a SonicWall VPN from a Linux machine
Is there a SonicWall client for Linux? When I searched around I could only find answers several years old.
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