If my VPN connection goes down, what happens?

[BBill]

Well, I see what you are saying but the vpn could not have been the default gateway for the PC because the pc needs the real gateway to get to the vpn concentrator.

Per the windows routing table he could add a route statement for the target subnet...but why go through all that? Unless its a big secret or something or a matter of legality?

If the vpn drops, then the session with the PC is dropped, when the client goes to automatically reconnect to PP or whatever it will have a completely different IP address and a login prompt will appear, then just don't log in if you don't want to.

I suppose it could 'freeze' and that would not be desirable, but if thats going to happen it will happen with or without another default route.

You could test it by establishing a session via vpn and then closing the vpn client.