I am having an issue maintaining a VPN connection on a CN50 using Windows Mobile 6.1. I am trying to communicate with a listener through the handheld by using a GPRS connection to connect to the VPN that the listener is on. When doing this only a few messages get to the listener, before messages stop getting through. This functionality has been tested thoroughly using wifi and works as expected.

Question:
It would help me if anyone has any advice or can tell how to: Programmatically disconnect cellular and VPN not just request it and a better way to check the connection status of VPN and cellular.

Details:
The reason I suspect the VPN is the problem is because if the listener stops receiving requests, I can manually tell the device to connect to the VPN and cellular. When I do this, the cellular displays nothing (treats it like it is already connected), but when I tell it to connect to the VPN to connect a message that says it is attempting to connect and the messages begin transferring again. In order to reconnect to the cellular and VPN programmatically I am using opennetcf. This approach works for a while, but eventually records will stop transferring or I will start receiving the message that the VPN cannot connect. At this point I can manually disconnect and re connect successfully to get a few more records.

I have not had any success with finding a way to programmatically disconnect from cellular and VPN. Everything I have found indicates the most I can do is request the operating system to disconnect them. When I attempt to request a disconnect then connect, the device is unable to connect for any length of time.

I have also not had any luck with determining the status of the cellular or VPN connections in code. The connection manager has a status, but it is unreliable. It frequently says disconnected, when everything is working fine, and says connected when it is not. I have also looked into the information available by using OpenNETCF.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface.GetAllNetoworkInterfaces. This shows the types of connections that I am attempting to use such as VPN, cellular, Ethernet. The status for cellular and VPN are always unreachable with an operational status of up.
I am programming in VB.NET, the device is set to never sleep or shutdown.