How to use a VPN on my workstation

First of all, It is entirely possible to use a VPN on a Flaneer workstation, the only thing is that you need to configure your VPN to allow Split Tunnelling on a specific IP address: 169.254.169.254

This is an IP Address that’s use to communicate with Flaneer’s backend and cannot be blocked, otherwise Flaneer will not be able to recognize the machine.

Most VPN software providers will give an option for "split tunnelling", this is a policy that splits traffic into two "tunnels" based on something like the destination of the information, or the source of the information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_tunneling

Example with Proton VPN:

1. Click the burger icon in the top left
2. Click Settings
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Navigate to the bottom and turn on split tunneling
5. Ensure that "Exclude apps/IPs from using VPN tunnel" is selected
6. Add a new IP address 169.254.169.254

Split tunneling on Windows and Android - ProtonVPN Support

Enabling split tunneling on popular VPN services

To help get this set up please find below a list of external documentation pages for popular VPN providers on how to enable split tunneling:

Cisco AnyConnect VPN

Configure AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client with Split Tunneling on an ASA

FortiNet VPN

Technical Tip: Enabling split tunnel feature for SSL VPN

Nord VPN

What is VPN split tunneling? | NordVPN

Global Protect VPN

Optimized Split Tunneling for GlobalProtect

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