It's been 13 years since I took my TCP/IP exam and I have spent the better part of the past 10 focusing on databases and web and application development so my networking skills are a bit rusty. I work from home using a Windows 7 PC and connect to my office Via PPTP VPN using Microsoft's native clients. I do most of my work either on one or more physical boxes at the office or locally on my PC. That said, I also have some sites that I need to support via RDP that are outside my offices network and as my office has a policy blocking RDP traffic I would like to be able to access them without going through the VPN. The problem is that I use an IP soft phone over the VPN for my phone so the VPN has to be on all the time or else my phone is not basically, if I need to support one of these sites, I need to shut down my VPN which also entails dropping off of outlook and pulling up OWA. For now I tell my phone to forward to my cell and I shut down my phone and the VPN. Unfortunately that forwarding is visible to everyone in the office and it give the impression I am not at my desk working. My network guys have been able to set up a rule that allows specific internal machines , by IP, to RDP to specific external machines, again by IP. IT workd great when I am in the office or for my co workers but not so great for me. They are telling me that becaue I am on the VPN they can't guarantee what IP address my machine will be so they can't set up a rule to allow me out. My only other recourse is to RDP to my machine in the office and from their RDP back out to the client machines. considiring that My office is on a T1 which is being actively used by at least 45 other people internally plus however many clients are trying to access their sites, you can imagine that RDP over RDP is painfully slow. My office uses an ISA firewall, I think were still on 2000 and they have set it up so that I do not have a restrictive VPN, I.e. I can access all of the other network resources in my house while some other users can only access RDP to access their machines. So I am hoping there is some way to, say for example using the route command, set up a route on my pc to direct all traffic to a specific Public Address to my unsecured gateway as opposed to through my VPN connection. I would'nt even mind if all of my internet traffic went out through my gateway and only the three or four subnets that are my office were routedthrough the VPN. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Microsoft has an article for this kind of issues. You Cannot Connect to the Internet After You Connect to a VPN Server http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317025Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Microsoft has an article for this kind of issues. You Cannot Connect to the Internet After You Connect to a VPN Server http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317025Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.