Detecting dead NordVPN tunnel quickly?

[Atlantica]

You may have to try a different provider than NordVPN. I believe the relevant parameters would be ping and ping-restart. But those parameters are overwritten with the values pushed from the server (ping 60 and ping-restart 180). You can use pull-filter ignore "ping-restart". That allows you to then change ping-restart locally to something like 60 seconds, but I found if you do that the client continuously restarts itself every 60 seconds. It seems like the server doesn't like you messing with those values. YMMV

Yes, that is also my experience when I "adjusted" the values, although using --keepalive 2 10.

That set me onto the idea of using a dual WAN router I happen to have, and let it do the failover between two WAN ports, connected to two LAN ports (with different VPNs) on the main router. Messy, as I say, but I think the router WAN failover is quicker.

 

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Because I am in country X, and the company expects calls/login from its home country Y

Then either find a different job in country X or move to Country "y"

You'd be surprised how many North Koreans are working in the US these days for IT roles...

I'm told they are actually pretty good on a professional level