Course VPN

The Course VPN (CVPN) feature allows desktops to communicate directly with each other. 

This feature replaces ‘Turn off network isolation’. When Network Isolation was off, desktops could communicate with any other desktop on a single server, but it did not facilitate communication between servers and data centres. 

Course VPN enables communication between any desktop added to a particular course, regardless of server and data centre.

This feature is only available for Ubuntu and Windows 10 operating systems.  For other operating systems, you can still use ‘Turn off network isolation’.

Below are some terminal screenshots showing the CVPN interface, along with some additional properties of the connected interface.

 

Terminal IPs:

Below are some screenshots of the VPN network interface that is created when the training workstations are set up.  Below we see two student workstation terminals displaying the `edge0` network interface, which is the course VPN.

 

 Additional Properties:

 

Supported:

When creating a course with Ubuntu or Windows 10 operating systems.

 

Not supported:

When creating a course with other operating system distributions.