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Post #11 by Millennium
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryNetworking
Post DateThu, 14 Apr 2005 - 11:29
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050517075607/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=251780
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
That's not how a VPN should work... It should just route traffic for a certain IP range across the VPN and everything outside that range should behave as normal and go to the internet.

Many if not most VPNs disallow this, because it's a major security hole. Split-tunnelling essentially turns every machine connected to a VPN into a gateway from the private network straight out to the Internet. To call this "malware heaven" would be an understatement.
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