Troubleshooting Tip: Connect to a VPN Dial-Up tunnel from DOS

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Description	How to connect a VPN Dial-Up tunnel from a DOS Prompt
Components	All versions of FortiClient.
Steps or Commands	To connect to a VPN tunnel from a DOS prompt In a DOS prompt window, under the default installation folder of Fortclient (C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiClient), enter... ipsec.exe Tunnel_name ...where Tunnel_name is the name of the IPSec tunnel you entered in the VPN tab under “Name”. You can also 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 DOS window:A good addition to remark would be to use the command: start /B ipsec.exe -k To close a VPN tunnel, you can enter the command ipsec.exe quit , to bring down the VPN Tunnel.