Detecting dead NordVPN tunnel quickly?

[Atlantica]

I am using OpenVPN (UDP) – mainly for Teams/Meet video meetings – to a NordVPN server in Europe, from an Asus RT-86U PRO client. Normally things work fine.

Lately there have been small “breaks” in the internet connection (to Europe?), causing the VPN to stop. However, even though I can see from other non-VPN devices that the local connection is back, the VPN takes up to 2 minutes to detect the link is down, and re-connect.

2 minutes is a LONG time when I am the one talking on Teams.

To me the objective is to detect a dead tunnel as soon as possible, and re-connect.

As a test I have replaced

--ping 15
--ping-timer-rem

with

--keepalive 2 10
--explicit-exit-notify 1

Any better ideas/advice?

Thanks!

 

[ColinTaylor]

I am using OpenVPN (UDP) – mainly for Teams/Meet video meetings – to a NordVPN server in Europe,

Why? For a latency sensitive application like video conferencing you're just adding more latency and complexity together with another point of failure. If you can use Teams/Meet without a VPN that would be preferable.