Remote Desktop messes up Second Life

I submitted a bug on this but I'll post here in case other people noticed this.

I have a normal TCP net connection to my ISP, and I also have a PPTP net connection to my office which I use to run Remote Desktop. If I start or stop this PPTP connection while Second Life is running, SL seems to loose its connection: Both packet loss and bandwidth meters stop updating and I can not move (but I can spin).

I don't know whats going on but it seems that Second Life is using the wrong net connection (?). Anyone else notice this.

This would depend on how your VPN works. A lot of VPN connections like this will switch the default route to the new connection, which is out of SL's control. If this is the case, SL will indeed lose connectivity. If you use Microsoft's VPN client which is built in, there is a checkbox in advanced properties for TCP/IP on the VPN which says something like "Use this connection's default gateway.". You would want this unchecked. The problems this will cause, however, require a bit of intermediate networking knowledge. You need to know what subnets you want to route to the VPN connection, and you will have to specify them on the command line using the route add command, to route them to the proper gateway (the VPN tunnel).