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April 4, 2025

Troubleshooting Tip: How to set an SSL VPN adapter to the default instead of a Wireless NIC adapter once SIA is connected

  • April 4, 2025
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Description This article explains how to set an SSL VPN adapter to the default instead of a Wireless NIC adapter once SIA is connected on a local machine.
Scope FortiClient, FortiEMS.
Solution

After user connected SSLVPN, DNS server ip from FortiSASE is assigned to Wireless NIC adapter instead of SSLVPN adapter.

 

Thus, user is not able to access Internet and Intranet.

 

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There is a setting in EMS which is called 'Prefer SSL VPN DNS', and this setting is enabled by default under Remote Access profile SSL VPN settings. When this option is enabled, EMS prepends a custom DNS server from an SSL VPN to the physical interface. To solve this issue, disable this option.

 

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