Laptops, virtualisation, and networking

[Jason Ish]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:

> On 04/29/2010 08:33 AM, Dan Irwin wrote:
> ...
> > When I VPN in, I'm connected via pptp or ipsec. I can't see the same
> > bridging/dhcp working on these interfaces as wlan0 or eth0.
>
> I use NetworkManager to handle my wireless and VPN.
>
> It connects to our Cisco ASA box.
>
> If I start VPN from NetworkManager my virtual machines
> also get access to the company network so that I can
> map shares on the company's samba server from Windows XP
> running virtualized.
>

To the original poster..

Just make sure your virtual machines are NAT'd rather than bridged, then the
traffic should go out the VPN just fine.  If your virtual machine is bridged
to an interface of the host OS, it will likely bypass any VPN running on the
host.
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