Hi All,
We use EZ Proxy for authentication and we always tell the staff who uses
VPN to turn their VPN off so they can access our databases.
Is this the right way? Looking for answers around and could not find
any. I thought I would throw this in here.
Thanks for feedbacks.
Jay Dela Cruz
It depends on your configuration. In our instance, EZProxy is configured
so that 132.241.x.x represents on campus. Our VPN will give out
132.241.x.x IPs. So, if you use VPN, you are on campus in the eyes of
EZProxy (and thus would not be prompted for authentication).
So, basically what IPs is
VPN does what EZProxy does already -- make web access appear to come
from an on-campus address -- but for ALL web access, not just access
that follows links from your web pages using EZProxy. This assumes
outgoing traffic from users using the VPN will be on an IP address
recognized as
Cruz
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:47 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] VPN EZ Proxy
Hi All,
We use EZ Proxy for authentication and we always tell the staff who uses
VPN to turn their VPN off so they can access our databases.
Is this the right way? Looking for answers
]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:46 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] VPN EZ Proxy
Hi All,
We use EZ Proxy for authentication and we always tell the staff who uses
VPN to turn their VPN off so they can access our databases.
Is this the right way? Looking for answers around
Hi Heather,
Yes our VPN uses split tunnel.
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Klish, Heather J
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:20 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] VPN EZ Proxy
This also depends on if your
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:20 PM
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This also depends on if your VPN is full tunnel or split tunnel. Here's
my very, very simplified explanation:
If full tunnel, users who are logged into the VPN
for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Klish, Heather J
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:20 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] VPN EZ Proxy
This also depends on if your VPN is full tunnel or split tunnel. Here's
my very, very simplified explanation
I would definitely not tell them to turn off VPN since asking them to break
connections to machines, services, drives, etc is a barrier to service.
Much better to make sure your config supports a reasonable workflow all
patrons will expect than to ask them to do something nonintuitive.
kyle
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