Sometimes my VPN connection loses it's tasktray icon. This is no big deal really, except when I want to disconnect. Sure, it'll timeout by itself, but there are some services which are faster without the VPN (yeah the routing isn't quite right) so it can be a real pain. I've yet to work out where the tasktray icon goes, but until that gets fixed I googled and found that you can connect and disconnect using rasdial:
USAGE:
rasdial entryname [username [password|*]] [/DOMAIN:domain]
[/PHONE:phonenumber] [/CALLBACK:callbacknumber]
[/PHONEBOOK:phonebookfile] [/PREFIXSUFFIX]
rasdial [entryname] /DISCONNECT
Typing in a commandline makes me feel like a real computer user. If you don't feel the same way, then there's something wrong with you.
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