Noob VPN questions

[Slaanesh]

I'm trying to connect from my home PC to my office's network using a VPN connection.

I don't know alot about VPN connections in general, so here's what I'm wondering:
As long as I keep the VPN connection (it's a small prog in my notification bar) opened, will all internet connections use this VPN instead of my regular internet connection? For instance, if I use Google Chrome to surf the web, does it connect via the VPN to my office's network, and from there to the internet? If it's not, is there a way to let a program choose which connection (internet or VPN) to choose? I want to be able to connect to the internet using the VPN.

And another question: which is my IP adress when connecting via the VPN? The image server at my office needs to send images to my PC (using the VPN) but it needs my IP adress; is this the same IP adress I've always had or do I have another one using the VPN?

Thanks alot!

 

[airdata]

1) I believe you can change this on the vpn connection properties. Open network connections. Find your vpn connection, right click it and click properties. Click 'internet protocol tcp/ip'', click Advanced. On this page there is a check box that says " Use default gateway on remote network". This is checked by default. I think if you uncheck this and then connect that you should be able to use the internet via your own connection instead of going through the vpn.


2) Open a command prompt. start/run/cmd. Type ' ipconfig/all ' and it's going to show you what IP addresses you have assigned. There should be one specified for your vpn connection there which is assigned by the company side of the vpn connection.

 

[Nothinman]

I don't know alot about VPN connections in general, so here's what I'm wondering:
As long as I keep the VPN connection (it's a small prog in my notification bar) opened, will all internet connections use this VPN instead of my regular internet connection? For instance, if I use Google Chrome to surf the web, does it connect via the VPN to my office's network, and from there to the internet? If it's not, is there a way to let a program choose which connection (internet or VPN) to choose? I want to be able to connect to the internet using the VPN.

This depends on the configuration of the VPN and might not be something that you can work around if they set all traffic to go through the VPN.

And another question: which is my IP adress when connecting via the VPN? The image server at my office needs to send images to my PC (using the VPN) but it needs my IP adress; is this the same IP adress I've always had or do I have another one using the VPN?

You get another one from the VPN-specific pool.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

If split tunneling is not enabled then all traffic will be sent via the VPN.

 

[JackMDS]

To state Office VPN is like Stating "I need food". I.e, there is a lot of different values to the term.

The Office's IT person is the one that should know the answers when it comes to the specific Network.