[vpn-help] Making all connections go through VPN

[Kevin VPN]

On 12/17/2011 12:58 AM, Will Kalman wrote:
> I have my Netgear FVS-318G VPN endpoint router VPN working great with
> ShrewSoft VPN client but I notice that it does split-tunneling where
> connections to my inside network go through the tunnel as expected, but
> requests to the "internet-at-large" go directly out the client machine's
> internet connection.  Aside from secure access to my home network
> (typically, I'm accessing the SVN server and file shares on my Qnap NAS),
> which is working great, one of my goals was to route all my internet
> connections through my home network for added security at public wi-fi spots
> to eliminate snooping of email passwords, etc.
>
> Has anyone gotten this to work as I'm looking to do?  Client OS is Win7.
>

Hi Will,

What is tunnelled or not is dependent on the setting on the Policy tab 
of the Shrew site configuration and also on the configuration of the VPN 
gateway.

By default, a new site configuration is set to "Obtain Topology 
Automatically or Tunnel All."  This means that when you connect to the 
VPN gateway, the Shrew client will accept from the gateway a 
configuration that specifies what destinations to tunnel. If it fails to 
receive a list of destinations to tunnel, then Shrew will try to tunnel 
all traffic.

Assuming you've not modified the default Policy configuration, then I 
would suggest that your gateway is providing Shrew with only the ip 
range for your inside network as a tunnel destination.  To correct this 
you'll need to change the configuration of the Netgear.