Hi,I have a computer on my local home network which I us to connect to some cusomers' networks via VPN.That VPN is on a subnet 192.168.20.x (255.255.255.0). My home network is 192.168.178.x.Everything works fine. However, the internet traffic (e.g. www.msn.comor mail traffic) starts going completely over that VPN channel once it is initiated. It should rather go to my router/carrier and not into the VPN channel.My first thought was to lower the priority of the "VPN pseudo NIC" in the network cards overview. But the VPN is not included in the advanced properties where you can prioritize the NICs.So how can I make my internet traffic travel over the nic/router and not go to the VPN channel?--George

Hi, Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet Forum. As I know, in Windows Vista if you enable VPN to the remote network, all traffic will forwarded over the VPN connection to the remote network. It indicates that Internet resources will no longer be reachable and all the branch office computers will be sending data over a logical connection. Thus it is normal to see that MSN starts over VPN. For more information, please visit the following articles. Local and Remote Network Connections http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978192.aspx When you try to access a local resource over a VPN connection, you are always prompted for authentication in Windows Vista http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948067 For your requirements, you want to start MSN via local network with VPN enabled. You can uncheck "use IP defaut setting" in properties IPV4 of VPN network Properties. Hope this helps. Thanks.

How would this be done for Windows 7, please? I see no setting in the IPv4 Properties dialog that corresponds with "use IP default setting". I apologize for asking this in a Vista forum...