How to connect to two VPNs at the same time?
By Emma Valentine •
At my university, I have to connect to the local VPN in order to be able to connect to the Internet, at the same time, I want to connect to another VPN. What should I do?
21 Answer
If you're a bit familiar with routing, default gateways and network cards, this is easy:
- If your machine has an Ethernet port, use that. If not, add an additional WiFi card to the machine.
- Connect to the Internal VPN using the first NIC.
- Note the IP address range of the VPN
- Connect the second NIC to the Internet VPN This should now become the default gateway. if it doesn't, remove the default from the first NIC.
- Add a route on the second NIC to the first NIC for the IP address range noted in #3
Done!
If the previous five steps don't make you go "Aha! Off course!" then:
- Don't do it! :P ;-)
- Don't ask if it's possible with 1 NIC >:)
