Test for vpnclient running and restart it if it is

[dlandon]

I want to check for a vpnclient to be running and then restart it if it is. How do I check that a vpnclient is running? I don't want to start the vpnclient if it is not already running.

 

[RMerlin]

What router? What firmware? What VPN technology?

 

[dlandon]

What router? What firmware? What VPN technology?

Sorry. I seem to have been too much into the moment and forgot to specify. I have a 5300 and I am using an OpenVPN client, firmware is 380.69 alpha 1.

The reason I feel I need to do this is that I use a nat-start script to make some iptables changes to forward ports from the VPN to the WAN. I need to do this because my VPN provider (NordVPN) blocks email ports. When I make changes on the GUI that run the nat-start script I seem to lose the port forwarding. I have to restart the VPN Client to get the port forwarding to work again. I want to restart the VPN Client at the end of the nat-start script if it is running and don't want to restart it if it is not running.

 

[Martineau]

Sorry. I seem to have been too much into the moment and forgot to specify. I have a 5300 and I am using an OpenVPN client, firmware is 380.69 alpha 1.

The reason I feel I need to do this is that I use a nat-start script to make some iptables changes to forward ports from the VPN to the WAN. I need to do this because my VPN provider (NordVPN) blocks email ports. When I make changes on the GUI that run the nat-start script I seem to lose the port forwarding. I have to restart the VPN Client to get the port forwarding to work again. I want to restart the VPN Client at the end of the nat-start script if it is running and don't want to restart it if it is not running.

The nat-start code snippet should be useful?

Selective Routing with Asuswrt-Merlin

 

[dlandon]

The nat-start code snippet should be useful?

Selective Routing with Asuswrt-Merlin

Thank you. Very helpful.