If I have a Cisco VPN client on my computer and I want to see if https or http traffic is routed through the VPN or not, how should I do this? Can viewing the routing table tell me this information? Preferably without the use of third party tools like wireshark, I would rather do this will Windows tools like netstat if possible.
Windows – How to determine which traffic is routed through the VPN from the client side
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If you were to use the Shrew Soft VPN client (http://shrew.net/software), you could set your profile up in such a way to only route traffic destined for your work network over the VPN. That is accomplished by un-checking "Obtain topology automatically or tunnel all" in the Policy tab for the profile. But then you have to know what networks on the other end you need to connect to and manually specify them.
This is of course is possible only if you can get the group password and related settings out of your network admin.
Furthermore, this information indicates that it is technically possible, but obviously you need to comply with your company's security policies and procedures. If they think they need to route all of your traffic through their VPN, you need to think twice about how you are using the connection (in terms of what you're looking at, what computers [at home?] you are using it on, etc.).
In properties window of VPN connection profile, go to (1) Policy tab. There you can add routes.
(2) Uncheck Obtain Topology Automatically or Tunnel All
(3) Click Add.
(4) Set Type to Include.
(5) Set Address to the exact IP you want.
(6) Set Netmask to 255.255.255.255.
See also: Shrew Soft VPN Client Admin Guide: Policy Settings (Archived here.)
Best Answer
In addition to darwish's suggestion to using
tracert, you can do either of the following -1. Executeroute printin command prompt and see what the default gateway is. The default gateway is the one one which starts with0.0.0.0- and that line will tell you what gateway IP or interface is used as default route.2.Just googlewhat is my ipor visit ifconfig.me, that will give you your public facing IP address. If you know which one is vpn and which one is your ISP's IP, then you should be able to tell the difference.