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Can I access the license server?
The license server is very fragilemay not function well over VPN. 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.
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You should be able to access RDP. If not please report this with details as a problem to net-admin@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-adminadmin@slac.stanford.edu .
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.
After connecting to the VPN, I could not access my local network
This is a security feature of the new VPN. Once connected to SLAC, your system is isolated from the local network for your protection. In order to do things like access a network-shared printer, you will need to termporarily disconnect from the SLAC VPN.
I could not ping vpn.slac.stanford.edu
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