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VPN Question Split Tunnel vs Single Tunnel

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Can someone list for me the Pros and Cons of having a clients VPN connection route all traffic through the company's connection, vs doing split tunneling and only using the companies gateway only for company subnets, and your own for other traffic.

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John

If people have to go through your VPN to get to the Internet, it will be quite slow (having had to do this myself). Split tunnel connection allows your remote clients to use Internet as they need to without hindering you, and thereby leaving tunnel resources for company only work.

VPN (any kind) through DSL connections (very normal circumstance) is slow because the VPN traffic is working both ways and therby affected by the slow upload speed.

I only use, recommend and employ split tunnel VPN. ... Thinkpads_User

Methodman85

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What about the fact that split tunnel lets users be on the company's network, yet not adhere to any of their web browsing policy's. They can be accessing dangerous sites while connected to the network. Also, if they're site to site access permitted by another company. The user would only be able to access the partner company's site while they're in the office.

For instance, a partner allowed our external corporate IP address to traverse their network. If a user takes their laptop home, and needs to connect to the partners network, this isn't possible with split horizon since the connection to the partner will be going out through the users ISP's IP which isn't allowed to establish a connection.

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John

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