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Problem with persistent routes and VPN connection in Windows 7

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Problem

My home PC has a VPN connection to my office. The office network is firewalled, with a secure zone on 192.168.0.* and a DMZ on 10.0.0.* From outside, www.mycompany.com routes to a public IP - say 1.2.3.4. Our firewall NATs that to 10.0.0.4. From within the office LAN, we use DNS records on our doma…

Error Output

route add -p 10.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1

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Fix for: Problem with persistent routes and VPN connection in Windows 7

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Honestly, there's a few bits as to why this wouldn't work properly. But lets skip that for now. Rather than adding an arbitrary route to an IP address, try adding the route with the "interface" specified. i.e. when connected to the VPN if you do a: …

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