Question Company VPN

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My wife’s company has changed their database access policy and now wants to supply her with a laptop to connect to their ownVPN.
our home pc has a VPN installed and shares the same broadband connection.
Will the Commercial VPN on the laptop and the home VPN run side by side without one having access to or over the other?
 
My wife’s company has changed their database access policy and now wants to supply her with a laptop to connect to their ownVPN.
our home pc has a VPN installed and shares the same broadband connection.
Will the Commercial VPN on the laptop and the home VPN run side by side without one having access to or over the other?
Since these are both VPN clients on individual hosts, it should be fine.
Think about a coffee shop. There could be a dozen different laptops running VPNs on the same WIFI.
 
The devices are completely independent, even if you wanted to there is no way to really tell what software is running on a different pc. Most company vpn are configured to prevent access to other lan resource, even printers, so even if the other pc was infected by a virus it could not really attack the company computer.

In some cases you can even do strange stuff and vpn will still work fine. You could for example run vpn on the router so all your lan traffic goes to some vpn service. The company laptop could run a second vpn over the top of this. There are some limitations but this mostly works.

The only time you would have a issue is if you attempt to run 2 different forms of vpn on the same machine. Even that you can sometimes make work but it is highly recommended you don't because of how complex it is to setup and you can break things that take a long time to figure out how to fix.