Troubleshooting Tip: Connect to a VPN Dial-Up tunnel from DOS
| Description | This article describes how to connect a VPN Dial-Up tunnel from a DOS Prompt. |
| Scope | All versions of FortiClient. |
| Solution | To connect to a VPN tunnel from a DOS prompt In a DOS prompt window, under the default installation folder of FortiClient (C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiClient), enter... ipsec.exe Tunnel_name, where Tunnel_name is the name of the IPSec tunnel entered in the VPN tab under 'Name'.
It is also possible to enter ipsec.exe -d Tunnel_name. This will display the debug information of the VPN connection. Use the following command to open the tunnel without showing the DOS window: A good addition to the remark would be to use the command:
To close a VPN tunnel, it is possible to enter the command ipsec.exe quit, to bring down the VPN Tunnel. |