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Re: Testing whether the VPN is running?

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Cameron Simpson:

> You might also want to check that the interface is up.
> 
> My personal hack (not for a VPN, but for "being online", which turns my ssh tunnels on and off) is to look in the output
> of "netstat -rn" for a default route. This may imply that an alternative test for you is to test for a route to your
> VPN's address range?  Just an idea.

And for VPN in Windows *and* using WinPcap, one can check if this device
exist:
  \Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter

(controllable using 'sq query rasdial'). This works if you use
PPTP or L2TP but not OpenVPN.

BTW, a VPN on Windows doesn't come back up automatically after
a sleep/hibernation. The WOSB tool at http://www.dennisbabkin.com/wosb/
could be handy. What happens with your VPN on Linux (?) after coming
back from sleep/hibernation? Automatic or you need to script that too?

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--gv

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Testing whether the VPN is running? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-02-18 09:26 +0000
  Re: Testing whether the VPN is running? Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 10:45 +0100
    Re: Testing whether the VPN is running? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-02-18 10:03 +0000
      Re: Testing whether the VPN is running? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2016-02-23 19:24 +1100
        Re: Testing whether the VPN is running? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-02-25 13:25 +0000
      Re: Testing whether the VPN is running? Gisle Vanem <gvanem@yahoo.no> - 2016-02-23 10:40 +0100
  Re: Testing whether the VPN is running? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2016-02-25 15:01 -0800

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