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I am in a network that supports clients that have either Checkpoint v4.0 or Cisco v3.6.2. Problem is that the users I support need either one or the other at any one time. I have heard that both VPN clients cannot be on the same workstation. We do not have the luxury of having two separate workstations to run either VPN client separately.
Question: Does anyone know of a way to make both of these VPN clients work on the same workstation.

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by timwalsh

Don't have a sure-fire answer for you , but do have a couple of suggestions (as well as things I know won't work):

Things that won't work:
Trying to tie the VPN software to a user profile - since VPN software usually binds itself to your networkadapters (NIC and/or dial-up adapter), settings are applied to all users. I have never found a registry setting to tell the software to apply to only an individual user profile vs. all users.

Things you might try:
Since the VPN software binds to the network adapters, you might try multiple hardware profiles with a different VPN protocol disabled in each. However, I suspect that just having both clients installed (if in fact both will install successfully) will cause conflicts.

The onlysure-fire way I can think of to make this work (unless you can get the VPN vendors to offer a solution - fat chance) will be to create multiple-boot systems. The best way to do this (and easiest for you users to use) would be to use something like System Commander (from V Communications) and install multiple iterations of the same OS (with a single VPN client installed in each). Create a third partition that can be shared between the 2 installations , that can be used for data (working files)that needs to be accessed from both installations

Hope this helps.

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