asked on 5/8/2006

Cisco VPN and Skype

I work at home and want to use a Cisco vpn client and skype connection at the same time. I work in AZ but the parent company is in DC. I make several calls a day and decided to get skypeOut/In. Only problem is that I cannot connect to the home office and use skype at the same time. I want to stop using my home phone and start using skype as my main phone number for work related phone calls.

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mrmundy

5/18/2006

ts4673

5/8/2006

In the Cisco VPN client on the transport tab have you tried checking the allow local LAN access box

carl_legere

5/9/2006

you could be blocked by the Cisco VPN client's built in firewall (turn that off, right click the tray icon), you could be blocked by 'allow LAN access' as above, or you could be blocked because the cisco config does not allow it.
Ask others who have remote access if they are blocked from other internet browsing.

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Les Moore

5/9/2006

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carl_legere

5/9/2006

Do you have web when connected just not Skype?

mrmundy

5/17/2006

ASKER

Irmoore is right! This is the exact problem. No they do not allow split-tunneling. I now use both my laptops. One for working, and one for making calls to DC. It's a bummer, but it works, and they will not change their VPN setting. Thanks for the info Irmoore.

mrmundy

5/17/2006

ASKER

Yes Carl, I have web but not Skype.

carl_legere

5/17/2006

is web fairly slow, so that you can conclude that the web requests go out through them and then out the website and back through them to you for results?

I was just poking Ideas out there to see if it is some hope for you to fix this.

Les Moore

5/17/2006

Thanks for the update.

mrmundy

5/18/2006

ASKER

Unfortunately,

I do go out to the web, via the VPN connection. It's not slow as I have a very fast connection. I confirmed that Irmoore was correct. I wish they were willing to allow split-tunneling. It would reduce the network traffic from VPN users, and there are tons of us. Once I run the VPN client, it highjacks all of my network cards and ports. It stops me from using various sites, and software.

If I really need to do something - I just disconnect, and reconnect later.