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Reference Manual |
HOW TO share a Spotflux® VPN connection.
Spotflux is based on OpenVPN, a VPN that NAT32 has supported since 2009. No special configuration steps are required.
NOTES
1. The installer downloads and installs Java without prompting for permission.SEE ALSO2. A Windows 2000 version of the tap-win32 driver dated 07/02/2012 Version 9.00.00.9 is installed.
3. A Certificate is installed for OpenVPN.
4. All Internet traffic uses OpenVPN over UDP Port 443.
5. The DNS Address of the system is modified to 4.2.2.1 which belongs to a company called "Level 3 Communications" based in the US. Such DNS servers are not normally intended for public use.
6. Spotflux adds many entries to the Windows DNS cache. Because of this, even after it is turned off, access to sites that were already cached may no longer be possible. To fix this, the following command should be issued: ipconfig /flushdns followed by a browser restart.
7. Spotflux injects a script that loads http://cdn.spotflux.com/service/partner.php into the Header of web pages. That script loads advertising content, which raises privacy issues. To prevent that, add cdn.spotflux to the NAT32 black list.
8. Tests done on the NAT32 machine via FTP download of a 1 GB file showed only minor throughput reduction. However, download times for web pages did fluctuate noticeably.
9. Uninstalling Spotflux did not remove the Java version it had previously installed.
10. A reboot is recommended after the uninstall.
Honeypot, DNS Resolver daemon