Re: Is automatic network connection selection supposed to work ?

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At 06 Nov 2006 16:06:07 -0800 david.boreham@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


One followup question if I may :

I would also like the (somewhat hard to grok) automatic VPN
dialing stuff to continue to work as well. Currently I have my
'work network' setup with IPSec. So if I'm connected to my
office WiFi I can browse SMB shares on my servers. Then if
I'm dialed up on the CDMA connection off site, and open the same
shares it'll auto-dial the VPN.

Any thoughts on whether I can retain this functionality and also have
the automatic network selection work properly ? (I'm thinking that if
I tell it that Verizon is my work network then VPN dialing will
quit working).

Thanks again for your help.
Sadly, you're asking the wrong guy about VPN! There is a VPN option on
the "connections" page to populate w/your server and settings. I suspect
you'll probably have to manually toggle between a VPN connection and a
data connection.

Just a wild guess, but if you created a "My Work Network 2" (or whatever)
and added the VPN stuff (over Verizon data) to that, and made that the
"Programs that connect to a private network use..." selection and leave
the regular non-VPN version as the "Programs that connect to the internet
use..." that might make it automatic. Bear in mind, I'm talking out of
my a** right now, but it's worth a shot! ;-)

Hopefully someone with far more of a clue than I will chime in here!

Good luck!


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