Reconnecting PPTP VPN
Reconnecting PPTP VPN
- Subject: Reconnecting PPTP VPN
- From: Peter Sichel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:08:58 -0400
Hi All,
I'm looking for advice on reconnecting a PPTP VPN. I've written a
server monitoring tool that probes a list of servers at regular
intervals. If the underlying Internet connection uses the built-in
PPTP VPN client and disconnects for whatever reason, what are my
options to discern this and tell it to reconnect?
I'm familiar with the System Configuration Framework, and imagine I
can check to see if the first enabled service in the Network Service
Order uses PPTP (or PPP) and is currently in the disconnected state.
I've also Googled and found an AppleScript snippet for telling PPTP to
reconnect, but I am hoping to find a more direct way.
tell application "System Events"
tell current location of network preferences
set VPNservice to service "VPN (PPTP)"
if exists VPNservice then connect VPNservice
end tell
end tell
Is there a key in the SCF that will tell PPTP to reconnect? It would
be nice if this worked consistently on both 10.4 and 10.5 .
Thanks for any advice,
- Peter Sichel
Sustainable Softworks
www.sustworks.com
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