I don't want all my traffic to go though the VPN

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NeilCarmichael

I am one of the administrators at my company and now I am out on the
road myself I want to fix a problem the users are complaining about!

Our users remote internet connections are of a resonable speed
(384kbs), until they start the VPN connection and all traffic makes the
round trip up to the office via the VPN and back out again and they see
perceivable drop in speed when doing things that don't involve the
office directly such as surfing the web (we have a liberal policy of
where they surf) skype, messenger etc.

now I know the solution is to set up the windows routing table so only
the traffic that needs to go to the office (To the mail server for
example) and although I could plough throug the mirad of complicated
texts I am looking for a simple guide(or utility) on how to set it up.

basicaly I was to set up only goto though VPN if DESTINATION is
192.168.0.*

what would be really clever is if trying to go to that address would
make the VPN connect!
 
What VPN client are you using? Many VPN server/clients prevent what is
called "split tunneling", ie. the ability to access the remote network
through the VPN tunnel while accessing the internet or local network at the
same time. Its a security measure. Depending on the VPN you can configure
that, ie. enable/disable split tunneling, on the server side like OpenVPN or
client side like the MS PPTP VPN.

For the MS PPTP VPN client see this...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1003.mspx

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If your laptop has a vulnerability that can be exploited
from the (non-tunneled) internet connection, then your
laptop can be used to attack your company network
through the VPN -- which isn't private any more.
 
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