[OSX-Users] VPN to soton

[Hugh Glaser]

Wow.
Yeah, I had a feeling that it was part of the Cisco vision - can't have those pesky users not going through the corporate network, etc..
Mustn't even give them the option by hiding it somewhere.
Since you haven't mentioned it, I am guessing there isn't some obvious plist file that cane hacked, or some routing table "improvements" I can do?

It is a real pain, by the way, if you want someone to complain.
My machine at home also serves incoming stuff for web services, and I also want to be able to access it from away from home, either as ssh or various file or screen sharing options and/or VPN(!, yes it runs a VPN server, of course :-) ).
That means I need to ensure that the VPN to Soton is not running when I leave home - and of course that means it closes my ssh connections to the University that had to start under VPN to allow access.

Cheers

> On 15 Feb 2017, at 15:32, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hugh,
> 
> This is one of the major reasons I hope they do not decide to stick with the GlobalProtect "Cisco-like" VPN service in the long term.
> The VPN connection steals all your traffic, whether you want it to or not.
> 
> Cisco's idea of a VPN is where you (MegaCorp Inc.) want to be able to monitor and restrict all your employees' traffic from their company laptops, which are the only things allowed to connect to the VPN and must only be used for strictly company business.
> Which doesn't exactly fit a university very well.
> 
> Jules.
> 
> On 15/02/2017 15:26, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>> Hi,
>> So I used to bet able to leave the "Send all traffic over VPN connection" (in the Advanced bit) unchecked (actually the default) when I was using L2TP over IPSec to connect to Soton (or ECS) VPN servers.
>> But now Soton uses Cisco IPSec, I don't get that option in the Advanced - it looks entirely different.
>> Can anyone advice on the easiest way to get the old behaviour please?
>> Cheers
>> Hugh
> 
> Jules
> 
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