Force VPN

Does anyone know of a way to force a VPN client (Cisco) to start when a
wireless connection is detected? I would like to transparently force my
users to connect to VPN when using wireless but if they are at home or on
the company LAN with a wired connection I don't want to force VPN

I dont think there is specifically, but you could have someone write a
program that will check the connectivity status of the Wireless card,
and fire the VPN if it's online.

Chris

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:48:00 GMT, "Bad Beagle Boy" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <kpKdh.432160$1T2.91511@pd7urf2no>:

>Does anyone know of a way to force a VPN client (Cisco) to start when a
>wireless connection is detected? I would like to transparently force my
>users to connect to VPN when using wireless but if they are at home or on
>the company LAN with a wired connection I don't want to force VPN

A better bet is to enforce VPN in your wireless routers, which can be
done in a number of better products, including SonicWALL.

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Bad Beagle Boy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to force a VPN client (Cisco) to start when a
> wireless connection is detected? I would like to transparently force my
> users to connect to VPN when using wireless but if they are at home or on
> the company LAN with a wired connection I don't want to force VPN

Couldn't you just require VPN on the wireless connection?
How transparent are you talking about?

If the wireless access point had no routes to anywhere except via VPN,
wouldn't that suffice?

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Bad Beagle Boy wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to force a VPN client (Cisco) to start when a
> wireless connection is detected? I would like to transparently force my
> users to connect to VPN when using wireless but if they are at home or on
> the company LAN with a wired connection I don't want to force VPN

There are some commercial products which can be used to do exactly
this. Generally they can be used to enforce good connection practices
on your users---like using a VPN when you connect at a hotspot, as well
as other best practices like not connecting to ad-hoc networks and not
allowing users to bridge between a wireless network and a wired one.

http://www.networkchemistry.com/prod...ctendpoint.php

Regards,

Chris.

Disclaimer: I am completely biased.