If my VPN connection goes down, what happens?

[aflaba]

I use a routing table that is like this:

route add 88.80.x.xx mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.4.1
route delete 0.0.0.0
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 88.80.y.yy

If my VPN-server goes down, will my traffic go the "normal" route to let's say Party Poker, or will it just disconnect (which I want it to do)?

[Freakin]

generally it will just go your normal route. take extra steps to keep that from happening

[BBill]

do you have two internet connections?

[BiPolar_Nut]

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do you have two internet connections?

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ummm.....well, ywah, OP would. #1: his ISP, be it PPPOE or whatever to his ISP. #2: the VPN (another PPP connection using the VPN's gateway as their own, hence more or less another internet connection as far as the rest of the globe is concerned).



yeah, what Freakin said.

[BBill]

I see what he means now, but I think there is just one Internet connection involved and that is he connecting to a VPN server over that line.

The way I see it, if he has a session running over a vpn to party poker or whatever, and the vpn server drops, he will still be on the internet but with a different IP address than he had while communicating over the secure vpn. The connection with PP would drop and he would have to re-establish the connection and log in again he would not still be logged in as he was over the vpn.

I don't think additional steps have to be taken. Why would they?

[Freakin]

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I see what he means now, but I think there is just one Internet connection involved and that is he connecting to a VPN server over that line.

The way I see it, if he has a session running over a vpn to party poker or whatever, and the vpn server drops, he will still be on the internet but with a different IP address than he had while communicating over the secure vpn. The connection with PP would drop and he would have to re-establish the connection and log in again he would not still be logged in as he was over the vpn.

I don't think additional steps have to be taken. Why would they?

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a lot of software attempts to automatically reconnect when it drops. additional steps ABSOLUTELY have to be take

[BiPolar_Nut]

I'm not sure what would happen w/ the windoze routing table if you manually do the route commands. First off, you'd have to use the -p switch to make the routes persistent. More importantly, is what does windoze internally decide to do for the assumed stupid user when the VPN goes down. I wouldn't be surprised if windoze goes "Hey, the VPN dropped and that's where my gateway was! Now I have these packets wanting to go out to the interwebs and my default route is down! What am I to do?? I know! I'll go back to using the gateway of the LAN connection. The user won't even know I'm doing them this favor! I'm so good!"

Meanwhile, you're on PP, the VPN drops, routing tables are automagically changed, and your PP client now tried to immediately reconnect from your home IP 1500 miles away in the US.

Instafreeze.