OpenVPN to the U of T Network?

ted leslie ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 18 21:52:54 UTC 2010


is it IPSEC they want?

if you are active with a VPN, there is a set of routes that will
denote those routes be ESP'd,
everything else will go out as normal.

There are some vpn clients i have seen, that as an option you can
prevent all other traffic, but its an option, not the norm.

tl

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:49 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Can anyone point me to an idiot's guide to using OpenVPN, especially
> connecting to U of T?  I have in the past installed and run the setup
> recommended by the University, but as far as I can tell it doesn't *do*
> anything except cut me off the network (I can no longer access anything
> on the Internet).
>
> Obviously, I am missing some aspect of understanding about the process.
>
> On a related note - my desktop is also a server; if I connect to a VPN,
> do I disappear from the public Internet?
> --
>
> yours,
>
> William
>
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