tun1 state changed to down

[BlakeNagel07]

I run openvpn on my transmission jail and it uses "tun1" as the tunnel for connections. Every couple of days I notice that transmission will not connect to anyone and realize "tun1" state has been changed to down.

MY question

Is there something i can do that when "tun1" state is changed to "down", it can automatically change back to "up"? Currently I am just restarting the jail and everything goes back to normal.

 

[cdiddy]

tun1 changes to down because you lost your connection with your VPN provider, for various reasons - your ISP blipped, the VPN blipped, or they just disconnect everyone every couple of days because they want to or they just can't maintain the connections, I don't know why the connection gets dropped, but this seems to me to be very common.

I set up a chron job to restart service openvpn inside jail transmission_1 every night, and that works OK sometimes but not every time, again not sure why.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...g-up-transmission-with-openvpn-and-pia.24566/
This is a very long thread. If you can make yourself find the time, what you are looking for is in there, towards the last 10 or so pages, I believe... an auto-reconnect script. Never got it working myself because I stopped paying for PIA before I finished sorting through all the muck. If you're dedicated enough to this, you can get it working with what you find in there.

 

[BlakeNagel07]

tun1 changes to down because you lost your connection with your VPN provider, for various reasons - your ISP blipped, the VPN blipped, or they just disconnect everyone every couple of days because they want to or they just can't maintain the connections, I don't know why the connection gets dropped, but this seems to me to be very common.

I set up a chron job to restart service openvpn inside jail transmission_1 every night, and that works OK sometimes but not every time, again not sure why.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...g-up-transmission-with-openvpn-and-pia.24566/
This is a very long thread. If you can make yourself find the time, what you are looking for is in there, towards the last 10 or so pages, I believe... an auto-reconnect script. Never got it working myself because I stopped paying for PIA before I finished sorting through all the muck. If you're dedicated enough to this, you can get it working with what you find in there.

Thank you. I ended up going the chron job route as well.

command
jexec transmission_1 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openvpn restart

scheduled to run every 5 hours. this might be too redundant but ill see if i notice it affecting anything.