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Old Jun 2, 2008 | 4:31 pm
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Originally Posted by PorkRind
Your employer has most likely restricted local network access while the VPN client is actively connected to your corporate network. If you're working on a "corporate image" installation of Windows with no local administrative access, it's unlikely you'll be able to work around this.

Since I have administrative control over my laptop, I elected to install the Cisco VPN client in a virtual machine installation of Win2K under VMWare. That leaves me free to do whatever I want in the host operating system (XP), while taking care of business in the guest/virtual machine.
Wow....that is a really interesting idea! ^ I never thought of that.

I have long suspected that certain "features" as part of our standard deployment have interfered with the normal health of my laptop.

Under this situation, can you have the VPN client running in the VMWare, while your normal image is connected directly to the Internet?
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