[vpn-help] Automatically opening a Profile when Shrew Soft is opened or Passing a profile to connect as a CLI parameter

[Matthew Grooms]

On 1/10/2010 11:51 PM, Tony Bosman wrote:
> Hi, i recently moved off the Cisco VPN client to Shrew Soft VPN client
> and very happy so far, certainly at the conenction speed and stability
> (Thte old Cisco client took a while to bring up the connection and
> periodically, i guess based on fluxtuation in conenctivity it dropped.
> (I use a 3G card to get onto internet)). So, my compliments to the
> developers! Excellent product!
> What i would like to ask is.... is it possible to when opening or in
> fact say, calling that a particular profile be opened as a command line
> parameter. This was something i could do wit hte cisco client.... and it
> would save me a good couple of clicks as for example, my 3G client
> allows for a VPN client, plus vpn profile to be opneed when it
> connects.... nice and automatic, no fuss... but so far i have not
> managed ot find this feature with shrew soft vpn client.
> Thank you
>

Create a shortcut to ipsecc.exe with the appropriate command line 
parameters ...

ipsecc -r "name" [-u <name>][-p <pass>][-a]
   -r site configuration name
   -u connection user name
   -p connection user password
   -a auto connect

-Matthew