VPN usage

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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

 

[Guest]

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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