Running a DOS Batch file using UP on client

janjust

the short answer is : NO

this feature has been requested by others as well; you might be better off using an OpenVPN GUI up script - place the .bat file in the same directory as the .ovpn file with the same basename as the config file, e.g.

myclient.ovpn
myclient_UP.bat

janjust

actually, don't know what is happening here; I do know that the order in which thing are started and executed is very tricky on Windows, so the behaviour you're seeing does not surprise me too much. Alas I don't know a solution for your problem.

janjust

I'm curious how you solved it.

Another approach is to use 'status <full-path>' option on the client and then check the status file for any meaningful statistics - that might also give an (automated) clue with the connection is really up.

janjust

short answer: Nope.
long answer: still nope.