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? -- --gv -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
