Testing a TRIUMF-VPN Connection

There are a couple ways to test that the VPN has been established and is functioning correctly.

View TRIUMF Internal-Only Web-Sites

Navigate to: https://internal.triumf.ca

A message indicating that the site can't be reached or can't be found indicates that you have NOT successfully connected.

Also try: https://documents.triumf.ca

If you see the Xerox-Docushare home-page with links to TRIUMF collections, then you have successfully initiated a TRIUMF-VPN connection.

If you see "Access Forbidden" then check the status in Ivanti-Secure-Access-Client. The connection is often slow to initiate so try reloading the DocuShare page after waiting for about 30 seconds.

Inspect Your Routing Table

Before initiating a VPN connection, issue the appropriate command from the list below to view your routing table.

Mac:     netstat -rn -f inet
Linux:      ip -4 route
Windows: route print

The expected output on Windows will be similar to the following.

IPv4 Route Table
==================================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination            Netmask          Gateway        Interface    Metric
            0.0.0.0            0.0.0.0      192.168.1.1     192.168.1.31        50
          127.0.0.0          255.0.0.0          On-link        127.0.0.1       331
          127.0.0.1    255.255.255.255          On-link        127.0.0.1       331
        192.168.1.0      255.255.255.0          On-link     192.168.1.31       306
       192.168.1.31    255.255.255.255          On-link     192.168.1.31       306

After a TRIUMF-VPN connection has been established, there will over thirty additional destinations in the routing table. So issue the appropriate command again and if the output is unchanged, then a TRIUMF-VPN connection has not been established.