Robert, If you look at the route tables, your VPN tunnel endpoint (the other end) will have a better metric since this gets installed AFTER your connection to your ISP. Thus ALL traffic will be sent through this VPN tunnel. When you disconnect from the tunnel, your ISP's default gateway metric will be restored, typically a value of 1. To further illustrate, after you have connected to either ISP or VPN, you then DIAL into a RAS server, the default gateway will change to prefer the RAS server IP and not the former two. In other words, whatever gets connected last will be the preferred gateway.
HTH, Elmer -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert D. Cluett Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Off Topic: VPN Router to Router Understanding? [7:52040] All, My apologies for having to post this here, but I have not been able to get an answer from anyone. The scenario is this, I have 2 linksys routers connected to each other over a VPN tunnel (dsl). My question is, if I was to access the internet would it need to travel on the tunnel to the other linksys and out to the internet, or would it simply travel my dsl connection to my ISP'd gateway router and out? I am trying to understand what type of load I will be putting on my dsl connection. Any thoughts would help..thanks Cluett Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=52045&t=52040 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
