Anyway to set a idle timeout on VPN? I want my VPN connection to drop automatically after idling for 5 minutes.
Using Lion 10.7.3 and built-in VPN Client (Cisco IPsec).
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IPSec connections to Cisco routers are only allowed split routing based on the configuration of the router. I don't know what kind of router you are connecting to,b ut an example is shown here. Basically whomever is running the router would need to configure it to allow this behavior.
I don't know if this option was also available in Snow Leopard, but if you are on Lion you could try the following:
- Set up the native cisco client - if you don't know how, you can use this handy guide I created a few days back
- Once you have tried and confirmed that everything works, your VPN connection should show up as one of the options in the Internet Sharing part of Preferences Sharing.
- select the connection, choose on which network connection you'd like to share it and you're done.
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Best Answer
There is no way to do it through the VPN connector. This setting is determined by the administrator of Cisco/IPSEC VPN endpoint.
This not to say that you could not write a script that monitors network traffic and disconnects the client after a prescribed idle time - just that it is not available as a setting or attribute of the VPN connection on the client side.