VPN at startup / via terminal ?

Hi,
I have two problems I need to solve with VPN. I'm using the Tiger built-in stuff via Internet Connect to connect to a VPN. I'm doing this from a headless XServe via ARD right now. The reason for the VPN is related to software development which needs to connect to my clients network to access database servers.
1) In order to start the VPN connection, I need to login as a user, fire up internet connect and invoke the connection. What I'd like to do is to have the connection be establish as part of the bootup process in case I restart the server. So I wonder if there's a way to that via a startupitem or other and 'without' being 'logged in' as a user.
2) Sometimes the VPN connection drops, in which case I have to use ARD to re-establish it again. Is there a way to start the connection via the terminal?
I suppose if 2 works, 1 should be doable as well.
Any feedback would be highly appreciated.
- J

I haven't had need to use this, so can't speak from experience....
There's an option in the VPN setup to Enable VPN on Demand
This should bring-up the VPN connection whenever the domain is accessed, whether at start-up or if the vpn drops.
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