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Are you sure of that Tom?  I asked that very question and was assured that
vpn handles it nicely, without risk. 
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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From: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Date: 11/23/04 13:08:56
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] VPN Set-Up (Cisco)
 
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:07:35 -0600, Scott Johnson
<sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> We are using Cisco VPN Client to get access to company's network from home

> Right now when I connect up I can only access the company's network.  No
web
> browsing, No local network printing, & etc.
 
This is exactly how I would set it up, and how I have the VPN
connections setup for our company.  Think of it this way . . . if the
local PC, which is outside of your firewall on an uncontrolled
internet connection, can access the internet AND the internal network,
then it can become a bridge, right around your firewall, between the
internet and the internal network.
 
There is a setting on the Cisco VPN agent (in the Connection
definition) for "allow local LAN access".  I think it will allow for
printing on your homw network, but not internet access via your home
network.
 
> At a previous job, I swear we were able to connect up via vpn client and
still
> access the Internet and such.  If I continue to remember correctly, only
the
> traffic that was suppose to goto the company's network went there. The
rest was
> handled locally.  I don't think the browser traffic was sent thru the VPN
> connection.
 
If you were the security person at the previous job bowed to user
pressure and made a poor choice (IMHO).
 
> Has anybody set this sort of connection up via the Cisco VPN?  I check the
Cisco
> site and they have a lot of docs there.  Can somebody point me to one that
will
> help in this type of set-up?
 
I am pretty sure it can be done, but I wouldn't do it.  For web
access, I would get the VPN setup to grab all web traffic and force it
through the company firewall.  There may be some routing issues on the
internal network as well.
 
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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx
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