I have a PPPOE connection on a computer. That computer has two LAN cards and I activated ICS on it. The problem is, the connection kinda degrades over time (don't know why), and a redial would be nice, hourly maybe. I was thinking of writing an AutoIT script that would do this, if, for example I'm sending some data to a port the gateway pc is listening on. The only trouble is, I don't know what's the name of the executable I would have to run.
EDIT: I'm interested in the one with the GUI.
EDIT 2: I am interested in automating this process, and wouldn't like to have to write the thing in AutoIT (this a last resort option).
you can use rasdial (which is build in into windows) and create a batch script (.bat extension) like so:
rasdial connectionname
-or-
if you want to do it in a programming language, you can just call the command internally
C# example:
public static int OpenConnection(string connectionName, int Timeout) {
int ExitCode;
ProcessStartInfo ProcessInfo;
Process Process;
ProcessInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe", "/C rasdial " + connectionName);
ProcessInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
ProcessInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
Process = Process.Start(ProcessInfo);
Process.WaitForExit(Timeout);
ExitCode = Process.ExitCode;
Process.Close();
return ExitCode;
}
and I guess your desired language will have something like this available as well.
oh and you can use:
rasdial "connection name" /d
to drop the connection.