Managing Automatic VPN Initiation

When your network administrator has configured your VPN Client for automatic VPN initiation (by including it in the vpnclient.ini file), the Options menu includes the option Automatic VPN Initiation (auto initiation). When you select this option, the VPN Client displays a dialog box that lets you enable/disable auto initiation and change the setting of the retry interval. Disabling auto initiation in this way does not remove it from your configuration. If you need to enable auto initiation after you have disabled it, you can return to this dialog box and enable it again. The only way you can remove auto initiation from your configuration is through editing the vpnclient.ini file.

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To disable or enable auto initiation, follow these steps:

  1. Choose Automatic VPN Initiation from the Options menu.

The VPN Client displays the Automatic VPN Initiation Dialog Box.

  1. To enable auto initiation after it has been disabled, click Enable automatic VPN initiation (or to disable auto initiation, click to uncheck Enable automatic VPN initiation).

  2. To change the setting of the retry interval, enter the new value (1 to 10) in the Retry Interval box.

  3. Click Apply.

  4. If you are enabling auto initiation, you then must close the VPN Client. The authentication dialog then prompts you to enter your authentication information.

Note     You can also enable/disable, resume, and suspend auto initiation from the right-click menu, depending on the state of your connection.



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