Re: Is automatic network connection selection supposed to work ?

For VPN to work correctly on the device you must first have an established "internet" connection. If you setup a connection and set it as "work" then the connection manager will think that you are already on the network you need to be on and it won't allow vpn connections from one "work" connection to another. You need to setup your verizon connection as "internet" and the vpn connection as "work". Then goto the execptions section and add any dotted addresses that you wish to use through the vpn tunnel. When you enter these addresses in a connection manager aware app like File Explorer, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and a few others, the connection manager will automatically establish the vpn connection for you.

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<david.boreham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1162857967.613154.219450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Todd All*** wrote:

Yes. Create a new Verizon dial-up connection in the "add a new modem
connection" in "My Work Network." (You can look at the preloaded Verizon
settings for guidance, but you want them in "My Work Network"- not a
separate connection of their own.)

Then set both "Programs that
connect to..." options to "My Work Network."

If you're connected w/Wi-Fi, you'll use Wi-Fi, if not, it'll dial your
data connection. (You'll have to manually terminate the cellular data
connection, however- it won't automatically jump back to Wi-Fi by itself.
You can do it from the connection icon at the top of the screen.)

Good luck!

Thanks !

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.


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