[ale] multiple vpn's at the same time?

[JD]

It depends.

Which VPN?  There are different types before you add in proprietary versions.

Do the VPN servers allow split tunnels?

Does the company policy have any bearing on this?
Could you be fired for having multiple connections?

Then there is the router issue. Not every home router will support multiple VPN
connections. I don't know the specifics, but it seems that using more than 1
IPSec VPN or more than 1 PPTP or L2TP or whatever-VPN might not be possible.

OTOH, if the "VPN" is just an ssh tunnel, you can have hundreds of those.



On 10/10/2012 09:40 AM, Michael Campbell wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm pretty network-challenged, but I wondered if it was possible to
> run 2 VPNs at the same time from on an Ubuntu based box (Mint,
> actually).
> 
> I already run one through the network manager, but I want to run
> another (to work boxes in europe), and be able to use that as a proxy
> server so I don't have to keep going in and out of the VPN on my
> normal work machine (a windows box).
> 
> So what I want to do is set up another VPN on my home Linux box, then
> on my windows box, point my work domains (in /etc/hosts) to the Ubuntu
> box which is VPN'd to europe, so URLs I hit on my windows box go
> through my Linux box, through the VPN to europe.
> 
> But, as I said, I'm already using another VPN on the Linux box for
> another reason.
> 
> Is this even possible?