[lug] vpn and traceroute

[karl horlen]

sorry i got a followup question.  it seems there's a race condition of some kind.

if i delete the default route which is normally going out my local interface vs vpn interface, before i can replace the default route with a new route to set the default route to go through the vpn (did you catch that ;), the vpn connection is killed as it probably tries to keep alive through the local network adapater. as a matter of fact, the more i think about this, doesn't the vpn need the default route set to the local adapter so it can perform it's tunneling correctly?  

am i'm missing something. 

what i want to do is route all http traffic over the vpn and not over my local network.  however when i delete default route, the vpn goes down.  


 the vpn needs to communicate which it 

--- On Mon, 5/23/11, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lug] vpn and traceroute
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Date: Monday, May 23, 2011, 11:29 AM
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 5/23/11, Jason Schaefer <js at jasonschaefer.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Jason Schaefer <js at jasonschaefer.com>
> > Subject: Re: [lug] vpn and traceroute
> > To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General
> Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> > Date: Monday, May 23, 2011, 11:14 AM
> > > is this the way traceroute is
> > supposed to work?  i assumed that it would skip all
> the ip
> > hops in between / over the tunnel and start pinging
> from
> > within the work network so that the trace assumed it
> was
> > coming from the work assigined ip address.  otoh,
> maybe
> > traceroute has to work on all the individual hops
> that
> > comprise the tunnel?  but that doesn't make sense
> right?
> > >
> > 
> > You will need to set your default gateway to route out
> the
> > vpn tunnel.
> > Type "route print" and you will see your current
> route
> > table. It
> > probably just has the remote subnet(s) set to route
> over
> > the vpn and
> > the default gateway set to your local gateway.
> 
> you guys are right.  i should have known this. 
> duh.  now i have to figure out windows route syntax to
> change that :)  fwiw, my windows route table has lots
> of crap in there it doesn't need.  i wonder why all
> that crap gets put in there.
> 
> thanks
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