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Request: Auto-start of connection

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:24 am
by loetmann
Hi,
firts of all wonderfull stable product.

Since I use it to reach a mail-server on the remote sites I would like to see something like: Auto-connect if attempt to connect to certain FQDNs like mail.mynet.local. Optionally by IP-Address. Would this be possible?

Regards.

Re: Request: Auto-start of connection

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:20 am
by James
Hi loetmann,

It's actually something we've already worked on, however we haven't released anything yet at we're watching the patent troll environment warily after Apple lost a recent lawsuit over their "VPN on demand" feature, which is similar in some respects. We're considering including it in the next major update to Viscosity, but we'd want to be sure we're on solid footing before we release anything. The joys of software patent trolls!

Cheers,
James

Re: Request: Auto-start of connection

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 2:23 am
by mgi
Hello,

I would really welcome automatic connection feature in the Viscosity.app too.

James, you're mentioning lawsuit against Apple but this is something like VPN on Demand when accessing DNS name of internal resource. But what about some subnet, gw IP, ... triggers for automatic connection?

For example, if subnet of default adapter is network 10.10.10.0/24, then activate connection. Or when default gw is 10.20.20.1 then don't activate connection.

Maybe such implementation could be o.k., even legally, because other VPN software developers have already deployed this function. And I hope that this could be enough for most of the Viscosity users.

Cheers.

Re: Request: Auto-start of connection

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 12:29 pm
by James
Hi mgi,

Thanks for your feedback.

If you're after a simpler trigger for automatically starting a connection you may like to make use of Viscosity's scripting support in combination with a third party app. The following post lists some information in regards to the Mac version:
http://www.sparklabs.com/forum/viewtopi ... 4497#p4497

Cheers,
James

Re: Request: Auto-start of connection

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:47 pm
by mgi
Hi James,

I'm not sure if using applications similar to MarcoPolo is the solution. Most of those apps are already old and unsupported or other are commercial. And to be honest, I would rather buy a (Open)VPN application which already supports triggers as some (to me) unknown app.

So I still think it would be the best to have the trigger implemented directly into the Viscosity.app.

Cheers.

Re: Request: Auto-start of connection

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 11:59 pm
by exomic
Any update on a « vpn on demand » with openvpn? I use it on iOS and love ii and looking for using it on windows.

Re: Request: Auto-start of connection

Posted: Tue May 19, 2020 3:53 pm
by James
Hi exomic,

I'm afraid there is nothing we can report at this stage on this one.

Cheers,
James

Re: Request: Auto-start of connection

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:05 pm
by mgi
Hi,

Bringing this back again in 2022 :)

Any update about on-demand VPN connections? Even something simple as the WireGueard client can do would be great.