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There is a fixed timeout of 8 hours after which your VPN connection is disconnected. There is also a non-activity timeout of 20 minutes.
I'm using
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Yes, please follow the instructions as outlined above.
In order to install the AnyConnect Client, you must have sudo or root access to your Linux machine. You must also manually download the AnyConnect Client.
I'm using Mac OSX, can I use SLAC's VPN Service?
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Can I Connect to SLAC's VPN with my *nix Machine?
Yes, please follow the above instructionsinstructions as outlined above.
In order to install the AnyConnect Client, you must have sudo or root access to your Linux machine. You must also manually download the AnyConnect Client.
You may need to install a Java VM in order for some of the checks to work. You may bypass the use of Java by doing the following:
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The license server is very fragile. There are many failure modes, and most vendors have not upgraded to more recent flexlm versions that are more reliable, nor to support alternative license servers when one fails or needs to be restarted due to upgrades/patching/failure. Also serving a license across a VPN may be a license violation (e.g. if the licenses is limited to a site). For more on this see VPN and license server. At the moment it appears to work, however there are no guarantees.
Can I use RDP
You should be able to access RDP. If not please report this with details as a problem to net-adminadmin@slac.stanford.edu.
Can I access Confluence?
You should be able to access Confluence. If not please report this with details as a problem to net-admin.
Does all traffic go via VPN or does SLAC traffic go direct?
Once connected to our VPN service, policy states that all traffic will go through SLAC. We do not use split tunneling so all traffic goes via the SLAC VPN.
I connected to the VPN and now many web pages are inaccessible
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