Quick question about wireless/VPN

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It's a bit naughty really, so I am at home with my work laptop hooked up via ethernet and is currently across the work VPN as I am working from home.

Can I put this work laptop on my home wireless, hook it back up to the VPN and then use my personal PC on a wired connection to the hub without the wireless VPN from the work laptop picking up any data from what I do on the personal PC? Which will be primarily to game as it is dead out tonight.

In short -: Does a wireless device (laptop) using a VPN see or receive any data from a hard wired device such as my computer on the same home network.
 
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There is nothing wrong with split tunnelling, and local lan access is a common requirement across most organisations. To think otherwise is unbearably naive

- GP
 
The OP wanted to know whether they could play games on a separate machine connected to the same LAN without having an impact on the work's VPN.

My original answer was probably oversimplified, but answered that question well enough.

Would you configure a VPN so that anything on the user's home LAN could have any impact?
 
Yes, your answer was over simplified hence why I corrected you. You then instantly jumped on the defensive after being corrected and attacked the correct answer as being "idiotic", which is not only incorrect but also comes across as being a little sore.

To answer your next question - this entirely depends on the security requirements of the organisation and the requirements of the user. Considering the vast number of home and remote workers that require access to local resources such as printers, then the answer is clearly obvious to this and you appear to be trying to claw something back.

IT is a service to it's company and needs to balance security with the needs of it's user, and any company worth its salt will have a multi-faceted solution that balances these both, including letting users access local resources where needs be

- GP
 
Appreciate the responses -

From previous experience when hooking the laptop & personal PC to a hub which fed to my router I got caught out which I can only guess is because any data traffic passing through the hub to the router would be seen by the VPN hence why I got a lovely e-mail from the boss saying what is 'League of Legends"?

We use Websense to monitor our usage across the network at work, quite a shameful question seeing as I have the rights to that service and to log on and check myself.

The issue with last time is the usage of the game got flagged up instantly in a report.
 
It entirely depends then on what setup you were using. A client VPN on a machine will not transmit data from other PCs. If something else is installed somewhere or another mechanism is in place to transmit, record or monitor traffic then it won't be the VPN doing this, it will be the other mechanism. Any further reply here would be a total guess without knowing exactly what is in use (work router in use at home, proxy delivered somehow etc.)

Good luck going for it again though :p

- GP
 
More than likely it was due to a bridged connection I had between my work laptop and my personal PC to allow me to feed the wireless through the laptop over ethernet to my PC which in turn completely buggered up my work laptop when using it on the my work network because it couldn't recognise the domain.

It took a lot of time to get it to see my works domain I had to re-roll it in the end - I should never of ****ed about with it in the first place, the long and short of it now is that this is a new laptop with no bridged connections or relations to my LAN other than using the wireless to access the work VPN and my personal PC is simply plugged in via ethernet.

I think I am safe :)
 
That would explain why you had the problem. All the traffic from your personal PC would have been going via the work's VPN.

Just having both machines connected to the same LAN won't cause you the same problems.

I will await corrections...
 
Now now put the claws away. Well my mind is at rest for now, night shifts 6am - 6pm across the weekend... I've had 3 faults all night.
 
Sounds about right. No need to correct when you already are ;)

Please don't think I was being obtuse bremen, the Internet is so full of misinformation and people yapping on when they don't know that sometimes I just post something; however most of the time I try to stay out of it as it isn't worth the hassle. I'm not questioning your knowledge or ability so I hope there's no hard feelings.

- GP
 
Shake and make up then :p Here's a cookie

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- GP
 
What I don't get is... You are working from home. What's to stop it being someone else playing league of legends who is on your network? What an odd boss!
 
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What I don't get is... You are working from home. What's to stop it being someone else playing league of legends who is on your network? What an odd boss!
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When the connections were bridged I think he could clearly see that between the hours of 2:00am - 4:00am someone was playing league of legends, I mean putting two and two together I would have thought it was quite obvious.
 
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