Re: Travelling laptops over VPN

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From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:40:46 -0600

"Jerry" <jerry.giacinto@ketteng.com.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%238lynpw1EHA.132@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Well, you brought up the exact situation I'm faced with: we are using
> split-tunneling. I've been told by Cisco that without split-tunneling, a
> client cannot browse the internet while connected to the VPN. This
doesn't
> seem correct to me, so I may have to ask another tech at Cisco.

Don't bother. He is exactly correct. You must use Split Tunneling to be able
to use the VPN and use the Internet independently from each other.

> We do have a robust, multi-layered AV defense, so I'm not as worried
about
> that. But you're correct that I'm not sure how much of a threat I'm faced
> with if I don't have a properly established firewall. Do you have other
> suggestions for testing the effectiveness of a firewall, or do you think
> that what I'm doing with Nmap might be sufficient?

AV software and Browser Security set to the "highest" is the best defence.
As far as personal firewalls,...well I'm so excited about them that I don't
even run one... :-) I follow the measures I already mentioned and I don't
have things running on any directly exposed machine that I don't want
soemone connecting to. I just simply keep my machines "clean",..I know what
I have running on them,..and why. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

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