Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1447 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 20:09 Post subject:
Also your OP suggests, at least to my addled brain, that you assume the kill switch kills your openvpn connection, necessitating a restart. It does not. It just discards any packets headed for the WAN that should be headed to the OpenVPN tunnel. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.
I followed guide for OpenVPN DD-WRT (on Cyberghost website) and everything is working. The only problem I had is that in case of losing connection to VPN, dd-wrt router switched to direct connection which is not good for me.
Then I found that kill switch script can block direct connection in case of losing connection to VPN. I found on this forum script mentioned above and it's working. If dd-wrt router loses connection to OpenVPN, then it blocks direct connection. But in this case, I have to reboot router to get my OpenVPN connection back.
So main question, is there any solution for re-establshing OpenVPN connection without manual reboot? Automatic reboot is OK for me too.
Cyberghost instructions are old and flawed
See my instructions for Cyberghost
Read the forum guidelines, step up to a more recent build, consult the Marvell forum for the best build.
Recent builds have a built-in kill switch, your kill switch is also not the best as outlined in my earlier post.
Router in another country and probably I'll have an option to get it after 1 month. I can connect to it remotely, but can't update it's firmware.
By other words, there is no any option to reboot router via command line and only solution is to update firmware, use built-in kill switch, etc.., am I right? If so, then I need to wait when router will be in my hands. Thank you.
By other words, there is no any option to reboot router via command line and only solution is to update firmware, use built-in kill switch, etc.., am I right? If so, then I need to wait when router will be in my hands. Thank you.
yes there is another option. Quit monitoring this on the router. Find a convenient Linux server, and setup a monitoring script on that which triggers an expect script that telnets in and reboots the router.
You should update as soon as possible/feasible that is all I can say
Hello again I got router to my hands and what I did:
1. Updated router to latest firmware v3.0-r46816 std (05/30/21)
2. Setup Cyberghost per your instruction with ticked Killswitch.
VPN connecting and working, but how can I test the killswitch? Is there any command to imitate losing connection to VPN?
I found killall openvpn command in the guide and used it. After that, I lost connection to Internet and local network. I suppose it means that killswitch is working.
If so, is there any way to restart OpenVPN connection besides rebooting router manually after killswitch?
It's still better option then full reboot, but is there anything automatic? I tried to use WDC Connection Watchdog with:
Interval - 100s
Ping timeout - 10s
IP: 008.008.008.008
But after that my router started to reboot every few minutes.
