Establish a VPN connection in cmd

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How can I create a VPN connection with an arbitrary server using an arbitrary protocol in Windows cmd

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Have you looked into rasdial      Just incase anyone wanted to do this and finds this in the future  you   can use rasdial exe from command prompt to connect to a VPN network      ie rasdial  VPN NETWORK NAME   Username         it will then prompt for a password  else you can use  username     password   this is however less secure   http   www msfn org board topic 113128-connect-to-vpn-from-cmdexe-vista  p 747265

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I know this is a very old thread but I was looking for a solution to the same problem and I came across this before eventually finding the answer and I wanted to just post it here so somebody else in my shoes would have a shorter trek across the internet        Note that you probably have to run cmd exe as an administrator for this to work    So here we go  open up the prompt  as an adminstrator  and go to your System32 directory  Then run     C  Windows System32 cd ras   Now you ll be in the ras directory  Now it s time to create a temporary file with our connection info that we will then append onto the rasphone pbk file that will allow us to use the rasdial command   So to create our temp file run      C  Windows System32 ras copy con temp txt   Now it will let you type the contents of the file  which should look like this    CONNECTION NAME  MEDIA rastapi Port VPN2-0 Device WAN Miniport  IKEv2  DEVICE vpn PhoneNumber vpn server address com   So replace CONNECTION NAME and vpn server address com with the desired connection name and the vpn server address you want   Make a new line and press Ctrl Z to finish and save   Now we will append this onto the rasphone pbk file that may or may not exist depending on if you already have network connections configured or not  To do this we will run the following command      C  Windows System32 ras type temp txt    rasphone pbk   This will append the contents of temp txt to the end of rasphone pbk  or if rasphone pbk doesn t exist it will be created  Now we might as well delete our temp file      C  Windows System32 ras del temp txt   Now we can connect to our newly configured VPN server with the following command      C  Windows System32 ras rasdial  CONNECTION NAME  myUsername myPassword   When we want to disconnect we can run      C  Windows System32 ras rasdial  DISCONNECT   That should cover it  I ve included a direct copy and past from the command line of me setting up a connection for and connecting to a canadian vpn server with this method   Microsoft Windows  Version 6 2 9200   c  2012 Microsoft Corporation  All rights reserved   C  Windows system32 gt cd ras  C  Windows System32 ras gt copy con temp txt  Canada VPN Connection  MEDIA rastapi Port VPN2-0 Device WAN Miniport  IKEv2  DEVICE vpn PhoneNumber ca justfreevpn com  Z         1 file s  copied   C  Windows System32 ras gt type temp txt  gt  gt  rasphone pbk  C  Windows System32 ras gt del temp txt  C  Windows System32 ras gt rasdial  Canada VPN Connection  justfreevpn 2932 Connecting to Canada VPN Connection    Verifying username and password    Connecting to Canada VPN Connection    Connecting to Canada VPN Connection    Verifying username and password    Registering your computer on the network    Successfully connected to Canada VPN Connection  Command completed successfully   C  Windows System32 ras gt rasdial  DISCONNECT Command completed successfully   C  Windows System32 ras gt    Hope this helps

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Is Powershell an option   Start Powershell   powershell   Create the VPN Connection  Add-VpnConnection  Add-VpnConnection  -Name   lt string gt   -ServerAddress   lt string gt   -TunnelType  lt string gt   Pptp   L2tp   Sstp   Ikev2   Automatic    -EncryptionLevel  lt string gt   NoEncryption   Optional   Required   Maximum    -AuthenticationMethod  lt string   gt   Pap   Chap   MSChapv2   Eap    -SplitTunneling   -AllUserConnection   -L2tpPsk  lt string gt    -RememberCredential   -UseWinlogonCredential   -EapConfigXmlStream  lt xml gt    -Force   -PassThru   -WhatIf   -Confirm     Edit VPN connections  Set-VpnConnection  Set-VpnConnection  -Name   lt string gt    -ServerAddress   lt string gt    -TunnelType  lt string gt   Pptp   L2tp   Sstp   Ikev2   Automatic    -EncryptionLevel  lt string gt   NoEncryption   Optional   Required   Maximum    -AuthenticationMethod  lt string   gt   Pap   Chap   MSChapv2   Eap    -SplitTunneling  lt bool gt    -AllUserConnection   -L2tpPsk  lt string gt    -RememberCredential  lt bool gt    -UseWinlogonCredential  lt bool gt    -EapConfigXmlStream  lt xml gt    -PassThru   -Force   -WhatIf   -Confirm    Lookup VPN Connections  Get-VpnConnection  Get-VpnConnection   -Name   lt string   gt    -AllUserConnection    Connect  rasdial  connectionName   rasdial connectionname  username  password         domain domain     phone phonenumber    callback callbacknumber    phonebook phonebookpath    prefixsuffix        You can manage your VPN connections with the powershell commands above  and simply use the connection name to connect via rasdial   The results of Get-VpnConnection can be a little verbose  This can be simplified with a simple Select-Object filter   Get-VpnConnection   Select-Object -Property Name     More information can be found here    Manage VPN Connections in Windows 8 by Using Windows PowerShell Rasdial Select-Object

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