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Capturing VPN usage statistics

We're monitoring usage statistics of a network interface using NetworkInterface.GetIPv4Statistics() in .NET 2.0. This isn't reporting correct statistics for connections over which VPN traffic is being tunneled. Instead - in the case of the Cisco VPN client - the usage is just attributed to a new network interface that just looks like an ...

Check if access to a remote machine uses Wireless LAN

I'm trying to figure out how I can determine, through C# code, if my communication with a remote machine uses the WLAN card or a wired NIC on the local machine. For instance the remote machine is accessed through either ODBC connection to a SQL database, or a UNC fileshare. How can I detect if the communication is done through WLAN or w...

Webbased or Thick-client through VPN?

In an electric company where I was hired temporarily, we have to implement an upgrade of the billing and payments system ( the current system is a dbaseIII system). The company's programmer and I have decided to use VB.Net and MySQL. The company served several towns and have billing and payments centers in selected towns. Every billing...

Does Wippien use a direct connection?

I started using Wippien to make p2p connections between 2 distant Windows Servers. I use 2 different GMail Accounts. Wippien uses "Mediators" to initiate the connection. But are mass data transfers really direct, or is it routed through the mediator? I also found this article which seems related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/442...

How to build a tunnel for file transfer between distant windows 2003 machines quickly

I have two distant locations with Windows Server 2003. Can I build a secure tunnel quickly? Is there secure VPN built into the OS? I have domain names and router control on both sides. I can build a "VPN" connection with the wizard (PPTP), I opened port 1723 TCP on the other router, do I need 47 GRE also? The router does not allow me to...

Connecting to a CDMA network IN from Java

hello guys, Am using java to develop program that receives and processes SMS messages. I have been able to code the processing of the SMS Messages received and its working perfectly. Now the challenge i have is receiving the the SMS Messages from the CDMA network. When the application is about to go live, the CDMA network will setup a V...

How can I mount a remote directory on my computer?

I have all my code and data on my computer at work. But often I work from home, so I ssh into the work computer, connect to my GNU screen session (which includes a text-based emacs) and start hacking, compiling, etc. This can get a bit annoying sometimes, especially if my connection is slow, and the remote emacs lags behind my typing. ...

Checkpoint NG VPN client for linux

Is there a working solution for connecting a Linux client to a Checkpoint NG VPN server ? ...

Not connecting to SQL Server over VPN

Hi, I have connected for the first time to an existing network over VPN. I can ping the IP address which is used by the SQL Server from the VPN client, but SSMS does not connect to the SQL Server. I am using the right login id and password. Why could this happen ? Any ideas ? Thanks, Chakravarthy ...

What is your developer's font when VPN'ing to a remote machine?

Once in a while, I would VPN to my computer at work. I usually use either Consolas or Bitstream Vera Sans Mono on my choice of IDE. But the problem is that, when remoting into a machine, an ClearType setting is turned off and thus both Consolas or Bitstream Vera Sans Mono look quite terrible and hurt my eyes after an hour or so. What w...

Difference between SecuRemote (or SecureClient) and windows built-in VPN client?

So, I got a new laptop with oodles of everything, and chose vista 64 bit to actually use all my new ram for something. Now I realize that my companies usual VPN server is some Checkpoint server, and Checkpoint have not seen fit to build 64bit versions of their software. I know Windows come with a built-in vpn client, but to use it, I w...

Need to close a windows that does not show in process list via Visual Basic Script

I need to close down a VPN window using visual basic script. My normal port of call would be too look through the process list and close the correspoding process. Unfortunately this does not work in this case as the associated process is explorer.exe! Is there anyway to achieve this? ...

How can this error be rectified

How can this error be rectified? Exception: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException Message: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found Source: mscorlib Server stack trace: at System.Net.Dns.GetHostByName(String hostName) at System.Net.Dns.Resolve(String hostName) ...

Security risks of an un-encrypted connection across an international WAN?

The organisation for which I work has an international WAN that connects several of its regional LANs. One of my team members is working on a service that receives un-encrypted messages directly from a FIX gateway in Tokyo to an app server in London, via our WAN. The London end always initiates the authenticated connection, and at no poi...

Can HAProxy front both Web servers and SSL VPN on one IP and port?

I need a Reverse Proxy to front both Lablz Web server and SSL VPN Adito (SSL Explorer fork) by sitting on one IP/port. Failed to achieve that with Nginx. Failed to use Adito as a generic reverse HTTP proxy. Can HAProxy fall back to being a TCP proxy if it does not sense HTTP traffic? In other words can it fall back to Layer 4 if its Lay...

Get VPN IP address via WMI on Vista

How can we enumerate all the network connections in order to extract the IP address of the VPN connection using WMI? On XP, Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration works fine but on Vista it only seems to enumerate the physical connections... ...

Programmatically connect Windows VPN invisibly

Hello, How do I write code to connect through Windows VPN client? I want this process to happen invisibly during logon... Please help.. Thanks ...

ExceptionHandling error on dev website only when VPNing into my office network

I'm using the Enterprise Library Exception handling block in an ASP.NET web application. I was just using this app yesterday at work (non-VPN) and everything worked fine. I'm working at home today and as soon as I have forms auth'd into the app, I get this error: An error occurred creating the configuration section handler for exception...

Connecting to a VPN without installation of client software

I must sometimes write software to establish a socket with a particular server residing within a Cisco VPN. I simply write my software as if there were no VPN (making use of the standard sockets library). When it is time to run this program, I manually connect to the VPN using the client software installed on my computer, then run the pr...

Choose Network Connection for Browser in Windows

I frequently work from home using our corporate vpn. I have noticed that when connected to the vpn the browser doesn't use my internet connection, everything is passed through the vpn. Is there a way to force my browser to use my local internet connection for surfing the web while connected to the vpn? ...