[Vpn-help] Starting tunnels automatically at boot time

Heinrich Rebehn rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de
Tue Nov 13 03:45:53 CST 2007


Matthew Grooms wrote:
> Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am a new user of the VPN Client for Windows and i have 2 questions:
>>
>> - How can i automatically start a tunnel at boot (or login) time?
> 
> Create a shortcut to the ipsecc.exe program and place it in the startup 
> folder. Here are the command line options available ...
> 
> ipsecc -r "name" [-u <name>][-p <pass>][-a]
>   -r site configuration name
>   -u connection user name
>   -p connection user password
>   -a auto conenct
> 
>> - Can i run several tunnels simultaneously (with different policies)?
>>
> 
> Yes you can. However, there are a few caveats ...
> 
> 1) Only a single DNS server will be active at a time
> 2) Your policies must be made to not overlap each other
> 
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Heinrich Rebehn
>>
> 
> No problem.
> 
> -Matthew

Has anyone tried to install ipsecc as a service that is activated at 
boot time?

-Heinrich



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