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Nilambari Narayan Deshpande

Abhishek Gupta

Vikrant Arora

Shivakumar Thangapandi

Ning Wei

Deepak Narula

Amol Wate

Simran Rajkumar Nagrani

The techniques described herein enable the establishment of two simultaneous virtual private network (VPN) connections for a VPN client operating on a remote computing device. The VPN client can establish first VPN connection with a first VPN server instance of a VPN gateway and a second VPN connection with a second VPN server instance of the VPN gateway. To establish two simultaneous VPN connections, the VPN client is configured to create and/or use two Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sockets. In one example, a first VPN connection can be a primary VPN connection and a second VPN connection can be a dormant VPN connection configured as a backup in case of a service interruption with the first VPN connection. In another example, a data flow can be split across the first and second VPN connections, or alternate between using the first and second VPN connections, based on performance parameters.

Creating two simultaneous VPN connections for a VPN client

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Nilambari Narayan Deshpande