Re: Auto-connect VPN

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:36 +0100, Andreas Neiser wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 with the current standard nm-packages. Is 
> there a feature planned (or maybe already implemented) which 
> auto-connects a VPN (which works great with the vpnc-plugin), when the 
> NM discovers a specific WLAN (maybe defined by SSID). It would be very 
> useful for me, when I'm using my WLAN at my university. This question 
> was already asked by Christoph Höger, but he did not get an answer, 
> unfortunately. Maybe I have more luck.

Both this and re-connecting a VPN after resume from suspend/hibernate
would be two nice things to have.  I can think of at least two ways to
do this right now, but don't yet have the time.  I'd be happy to explain
my thoughts of somebody wanted to work on it.

Dan