Loosing Internet Connection when Establishing VPN?

[inveni0]

Right-click the VPN connection in Network Connections, and go to the networking tab and then to TCP/IP Properties. Click advanced and deselect "Use default gateway on remote network".

That's it!



(This works on software based VPN connections, and not on VPNs designed with two hardware endpoints. If you are using PPTP passthrough and dialing the ip of the server, this should work for you.)

 

[Bankotsu]

Does this solution work for Windows 2000?

 

[inveni0]

Try and see. As far as I know, this is the only reason you can not access the net when connecting to your VPN.

What happens is your computer thinks it has made an internet connection. If your server is behind a router, then the gateway it provides in that connection will not work. Turning off that gateway will keep the gateway you get with your current connection, and you will essentially be running one connection for the internet and one for a network.

 

[LloydSev]

This is not always correct.

Some VPN setups require the client to not be able to connect to the internet.

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[inveni0]

I am fairly new to VPN's, and I have noticed that most people looking for help on this site are, too. The average VPN is not secured with hardware endpoints (and doesn't need to be.) That is why my original post stated that this should work with every software based VPN. Of course it is going to differ system to system...that is why these forums thrive. However, this gives the average Joe somewhere to start. For me, it worked. It may work for a few other people, too.

 

[LloydSev]

Well for instance.. our VPN system only has 1 VPN hardware endpoint..

You "dial" the IP of the VPN via the Windows PPTP client, however there is no way you can access the internet using our setup, as we do not allow split tunneling.

Computer/Network Technician
CCNA

 

[inveni0]

Did you try this method?