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# sk65312 - Enabling Secondary Connect for Remote Access Clients

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk65312 |
| Date Created | 2011-09-11 |
| Last Modified | 2023-05-10 |
| Technical Level | General |
| OS | Windows |
| Platform | Intel/PC |

## Solution

### Introduction

**Secondary Connect feature** gives access to multiple VPN gateways at the same time, to transparently connect users to distributed resources. Users log in once to a selected site and get transparent access to resources on different gateways. Tunnels are created dynamically as needed, based on the destination of the traffic.

For example:   
Your organization has Remote Access gateways in New York and Japan. You log in to a VPN site that connects you to the New York gateway. When you try to access a resource that is behind the Japan gateway, a VPN tunnel is created and you can access the resource behind the Japan gateway.

Traffic flows directly from the user to the gateway, without site-to-site communication. VPN tunnels and routing parameters are automatically taken from the network topology and destination server IP address.

In an environment with Secondary Connect, the Security Gateway, on which the client first authenticates, is the Primary gateway.  
A Security Gateway, to which the client connects to through a secondary VPN, is a Secondary gateway.

**Important: Although the terms Primary and Secondary are used above to describe the scenario, we are not discussing a Cluster here.**

### Security Gateway support for Secondary Connect feature

Secondary Connect feature is integrated into all supported versions of Security Gateway.

### Documentation

For instructions on how to configure Secondary Connect, refer to the [Remote Access VPN Clients for Windows Administration Guide](https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/RemoteAccessClients_forWindows_AdminGuide/html_frameset.htm) \> Configuring Client Features \> Secondary Connect.

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