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Thorton

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AC86U with Merlin 384.19 (but the same issue existed with other versions, too). Running Transmission over VPN as described at https://www.snbforums.com/threads/transmission-for-asuswrt-merlin.31278/page-3#post-266164 - works fine.

But every day it stops connecting to peers and downloading data. I use Transmission Remote on PC, so when I open local torrent file, Transmission Remote properly connects to Transmission on router and torrent is added. The problem is that no data is downloaded, it always displays "Downloading metadata from 0 peers". The only way to solve the issue is to connect to router via SSH and manually restart Transmission. When restarting, I always see a message that daemon is alive (which is correct because Transmission itself responds). Then it starts downloading immediately, but other day the same problem occurs again.

Here's another thing: rebooting router does NOT fix the issue. Even if I reboot the router, I still need to manually restart Transmission daemon, which is alive anyways. My initial thought was the issue has something to do with this:

Code:
#wait for VPN
until [ $(nvram get vpn_client1_state) -gt 1 ]
  do
  logger "Waiting 5 seconds for VPN..."
  sleep 5
  done

I thought Transmission might not get correct state of VPN during this period, so I tried other values too - from 1 to 30 seconds, without any luck. It still only established a connection to peers after manual restart of daemon.
 

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