VPN connections missing?

[Owyn]

I need to turn off & on ICS for my VPN connection which connects me to the internet, but the program can't seem to see or access it anyhow

[loxia01]

Hello, thanks for posting your issue.
Can you try listing your connections with Get-NetAdapter command instead of ipconfig and post a screenshot?

[Owyn]

Obviously VPN connection is not an adapter... it's not there

[loxia01]

Ok, I believe it is those VPN connections Windows handles "internally" (LPT2/IPsec) that are not showing up as apdaters. If you have a VPN connection via the OpenVPN protocol, an adapter is created for OpenVPN connections (TAP adapter).

Unfortunately I have no means to test ICS for LPT2/IPsec connections right now. Do you know if ICS is supposed to work for LPT2/IPsec connections at all? If it is, the command Get-VpnConnections looks promising to work with in PowerShell.

[Owyn]

I have ICS currently enabled by standard windows means on the LPT2 connection and it works (until PC restart or reconnect then I have to manually disable\enable it again for it to start working again - that's why I need this)

[loxia01]

Is your connection showing up if you run the following command in PowerShell? Get-NetAdapter -IncludeHidden

[Owyn]

it doesn't, only 2 (x5) standard adapters

[loxia01]

Did you run Get-NetAdapter -IncludeHidden? (I edited the post).

[Owyn]

well, there is no name of my L2TP connection there

[loxia01]

Tested to rewrite my module with Get-NetAdapter -IncludeHidden. I will upload this rewritten module so you can test for yourself. Perhaps you can test to share "Beeline_local" connection. When installing do exactly as before but name the folder "PSInternetConnectionSharing_IncludeHidden". Then add "1" to the function name, like Set-Ics1, Get-Ics1 and Disable-Ics1 when issuing the rewritten commands.

[Owyn]

Perhaps you can test to share "Beeline_local" connection.

That's my local connection without internet, and I need internet to share so sharing it would be kinda pointless...

[loxia01]

Ok unfortunately I do not know how to fix this for now, but I remember a workaround (or solution) I used myself when I started using ICS:
To make ICS persistent across reboots you have to add a value in Windows registry: Run regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedAccess. There create New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and name the new key EnableRebootPersistConnection. Doubleclick the key and modify its value to 1. ICS should now be permanent across reboots.

Hope this will work for you.

Source: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/internet-connection-sharing-not-working