VPN usage

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Typically this is a selectable option. In the case where all traffic
goes to the gateway, that is called "single tunnel" - when some goes to
the gateway the rest just goes directly to its destination, that's
called "split tunnel". Each has advantages and disadvantages - up to
you to figure out which way fits your requirements best.

HTH

-Joel

itsharkopath@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are VPN's intended to secure all the data streams going out of the
> client. If not, they should be able to differentiate between the
> connections that should be protected and sent to the VPN gateway and
> those that should directly be sent.
> In the protocol stack, VPN at the client side sits at IP layer.
> Several applications might be running in the client and they might be
> sending data to the destination nodes, will all the traffic be sent
to
> the VPN gateway and then be relayed?
>
> shar