Re: Bring VPN up on connect?

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Darren Albers wrote:

> I think so but not by itself.
>
> Take a look at whereami and build a script around with nm-dispatcher.
>
> I used to do this to determine what NFS mounts to use but now that I travel a 
> lot less I stopped using it and I never used it with NM-Dispatcher but I 
> can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work.

I suppose I should have mentioned that this is FC6--I don't see whereami 
in the usual repos.  Also this is an ipw2200 and I found a reference to 
whereami on Thinkwiki that suggests that it won't work with that card.

I guess I'm really asking if it would be possible to add something to 
the network profiles stored in .gconf/ so that NM could take care of this 
automatically.

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > Is it possible to bring a particular VPN up automatically when one connects 
> > to a particular ESSID?
> >
> > My campus is looking at requiring VPN access to local resources when 
> > connected to the local wireless net.  If they do that, then it would be 
> > nice if NM could start the appropriate VPN client when I connect to that 
> > net (but of course, not otherwise).
> >
> > Is this something that NM-dispatcher can do?
> >
> > TIA.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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