Joy unbounded

[andygates]

Our new Cisco VPN client is a parallel-tunneling sort of creature.  This means that while I am securely and be-dongledly plumbed into the NHS N3 network, RDP'd onto a bridgehead machine and then RDP'd onto a couple more after that, I'm also able to use regular internet.  Compared to the last VPN client we had, which hijacked the whole line, this is joy unbounded, for it means that I can carry on with my daily surf while searching entire umpty-terabyte SANs for the furtive logs of sulky patient booking systems, while waiting for their support agents to phone.  Why we picked a product with support agents in New Zealand (GMT+12! woot!) is beyond me, but at least I can get my pr0n empowering and improving web literature now.

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[andygates.livejournal.com]

Strictly, we're not supposed to use our own PCs, but the on-call kit uses a 3G card and 3G reception is patchy in our rural idyll, worse in my subterranean retreat.

Alas I can't say how it does it as I'm now OFF-call (frabjous!) so I've given back the dongle. I think it creates a virtual NIC. There's certainly no automatic bridging between the two.