Testing your VPN Connection
There are a couple ways to test that the VPN has been established and is functioning correctly.
Your VPN is active if you can get to https://documents.triumf.ca.
If you receive the following message, then the VPN connection is not set:
WARNING: This method of off-site access is depecated. User the VPN portal...
From a shell type:
traceroute www.triumf.ca
. The first line should contain .triumf.ca (base.vpn.triumf.ca in the example below):
$ traceroute www.triumf.ca
traceroute to www.triumf.ca (142.90.89.35), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 base.vpn.triumf.ca (142.90.79.1) 15.285 ms 18.778 ms 23.685 ms
2 142.90.92.129 (142.90.92.129) 14.044 ms 15.251 ms 15.959 ms
3 www.triumf.ca (142.90.89.35) 15.737 ms !Z 24.767 ms !Z 29.850 ms !Z