Disconnecting Mobility

When you connect using Mobility, a secure VPN tunnel is established between you and the resources you access. Cryptographic methods are used to establish the identities of the tunnel participants, and then Mobility encrypts information traversing the tunnel during the VPN session.

But you may not always need the secure tunnel, or Mobility may be temporarily unavailable. For example:

•	If you do some work from home or during your commute, you need the tunnel to protect your communications. But inside the corporate firewall it is usually safe to turn off the VPN.

•	The Mobility server may be temporarily unavailable. You can disconnect Mobility and still have access to the local network, and Mobility does not require you to reauthenticate when you reconnect.

•	If a client is unable to connect to a Mobility server at logon, just disconnect and complete the Windows logon.

If the option to disconnect is not available, the system administrator has configured Mobility to require Mobility clients to always use the mobile VPN.

Assuming the disconnect option is available, there are several ways to turn off the Mobility VPN:

Disconnecting from Mobility in the logon dialog box

•	In the Mobility Logon dialog box, click Disconnect. This option appears only if the system administrator has chosen to allow users to disconnect from Mobility.

Disconnecting from Mobility on the desktop

•	On the Windows desktop, right-click the Mobility icon in the system tray and click Disconnect NetMotion Mobility. If the shortcut menu does not offer this option, the system administrator does not allow users to disconnect.

Disconnecting from Mobility in the Client Properties dialog box

1.	Open the NetMotion Mobility Client dialog box:

Start > Mobility Client

2.	Click Disconnect. If the Status tab does not offer this option, the system administrator does not allow users to disconnect.

3.	In the NetMotion Settings Change dialog box, click Yes.