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> At least on Linux, with Network Manager, one of the options when configuring a network interface (including a VPN) is to set the subnets that are reached via
by patrick451 5y ago
> At least on Linux, with Network Manager, one of the options when configuring a network interface (including a VPN) is to set the subnets that are reached via it. Most universities will have a /8 or /16 subnet, within which their internal services sit (assuming the services are on-premises). You can do a split route, so this subnet is reachable via the tunnel, but everything else is routed through your regular WAN connection.
When I was in grad school, the VPN was mostly useful because it granted your access to most academic journals. Routing non university traffic around the VPN would probably break that.
- g_p 5y agoYou're right, but most universities also have a SSO-based proxy to let you do this, or alternatively have integration with an access federation. That means you have to do an SSO (or have a browser session already authenticated through SSO), but you should still have access to journals and resources without using the VPN. With Covid, I believe any that didn't do this have implemented it, so they weren't overloading their VPN routers with traffic. I've seen a few trying to remind people how to use resources via SSO and access federation, rather than VPN, just to reduce that load.