vpnmgr vpnmgr - Manage and update VPN Client configurations for NordVPN and PIA

[Jack Yaz]

From WeVPN tech support:

Good to see they copy and pasted the same response!

I think for vpnmgr I will have to investigate working in their API, which isn't a small undertaking. @Viktor Jaep I don't suppose you have the zip folders for the old files saved anywhere do you?

 

[Jack Yaz]

Actually, @Viktor Jaep is there anything vpnmgr does that vpmon doesn't? (excluding a WebUI)? Maybe its time i shutter this particular addon

 

[Stephen Harrington]

is there anything vpnmgr does that vpmon doesn't?

@Jack Yaz there is definitely a lot of overlap but not sure @Viktor Jaep handles this for example?

 

[Viktor Jaep]

I think for vpnmgr I will have to investigate working in their API, which isn't a small undertaking. @Viktor Jaep I don't suppose you have the zip folders for the old files saved anywhere do you?

I'm so sorry... Unfortunately I don't have a copy of these...

Actually, @Viktor Jaep is there anything vpnmgr does that vpmon doesn't? (excluding a WebUI)? Maybe its time i shutter this particular addon

Yeah, while I rely on the user making sure they have correctly configured VPN client slots in order to monitor those, I relied on vpnmgr's excellent capabilities at writing these various configs to the VPN slots for those using WeVPN/Nord/PIA, as @Stephen Harrington pointed out. I completely understand your pain in supporting the functionality and capabilities of the various VPN providers, and getting this all to work within the VPN framework, especially when they end up changing the way they function, like going the API route vs. the zip files.

 

[chongnt]

Good to see they copy and pasted the same response!

I think for vpnmgr I will have to investigate working in their API, which isn't a small undertaking. @Viktor Jaep I don't suppose you have the zip folders for the old files saved anywhere do you?

Are you looking for these two files?

-rw-rw-rw-    1 admin    root      186.5K Sat Apr 30 00:00:11 2022 wevpn_tcp_standard.zip
-rw-rw-rw-    1 admin    root      186.5K Sat Apr 30 00:00:10 2022 wevpn_udp_standard.zip

 

[Jack Yaz]

Are you looking for these two files?

-rw-rw-rw-    1 admin    root      186.5K Sat Apr 30 00:00:11 2022 wevpn_tcp_standard.zip
-rw-rw-rw-    1 admin    root      186.5K Sat Apr 30 00:00:10 2022 wevpn_udp_standard.zip

Yes!

 

[chongnt]

Yes!

Here you go

Edit: It does not allow to upload zip files here. Let me upload somewhere else and share the link with you.

 

[Jack Yaz]

Thanks @chongnt

For people affected, please can you run this command at the terminal, then use option r in the vpnmgr menu?

/jffs/scripts/vpnmgr develop

 

[Chuckles67]

Thanks @chongnt

For people affected, please can you run this command at the terminal, then use option r in the vpnmgr menu?

/jffs/scripts/vpnmgr develop

Ran a new install of vpnmgr on 386.7_2 (problem with vpnmgr web GUI),
then ran this command and option r and now I see the full vpnmgr web GUI.

Thanks for this.

 

[dsring]

Thanks @chongnt

For people affected, please can you run this command at the terminal, then use option r in the vpnmgr menu?

/jffs/scripts/vpnmgr develop

GUI issue fixed, following these instructions. Thanks.

 

[Jack Yaz]

Changes merged to master, so anyone on develop will see a minor update to bring them back to the mainline release

 

[Stephen Harrington]

Changes merged to master, so anyone on develop will see a minor update to bring them back to the mainline release

@jack_yaz I updated to your latest release and I’m now seeing continual high CPU demands from vpnmgr - is constantly top of the list in htop Have rebooted a couple of times but still the same. I’m using it for a single NordVPN connection.
What’s easiest way of reverting to test, or should I try and dig it out of a JFFS backup?

 

[dsring]

@jack_yaz I updated to your latest release and I’m now seeing continual high CPU demands from vpnmgr - is constantly top of the list in htop Have rebooted a couple of times but still the same. I’m using it for a single NordVPN connection.
What’s easiest way of reverting to test, or should I try and dig it out of a JFFS backup?

Same here...high CPU usage with vpnmgr. I uninstalled it and CPU usage was still high until I rebooted the router.

 

[Stephen Harrington]

Same here...high CPU usage with vpnmgr.

Thanks for confirming I wasn’t going crazy
If @Jack Yaz doesn’t chime in I’ll try and revert to 2.3.1 and confirm.

 

[Jack Yaz]

did anyone happen to check which process/command was using the CPU from vpnmgr?
and any logging from vpnmgr in syslog?

 

[Jack Yaz]

Ah, think I see the issue. I'm going to hazard a guess there'll be log spam about testing the client is up

Hotfix pushed. If it's not that, I'll need more info

 

[Stephen Harrington]

Reverting to 2.3.1 fixed for me, will test your Hotfix when I can in a couple of hours or so @Jack Yaz. Didn’t get to look at logs at the time, was rushing to get it stable so I could go out, sorry!

 

[Stephen Harrington]

Hotfix pushed. If it's not that, I'll need more info

Confirming you squashed it @Jack Yaz, revised 2.3.2 "Hotfix" is working for me.
Thanks again!

 

[muffintastic]

@Jack Yaz
Had to remove the latest version... Nord keeps disconnecting with "Error connecting, authentication failed." I've reset my password as using the credentials in my Nord account. I'm testing it with it uninstalled not sure if Nord has updated something, or it doesn't like the latest version of vpnmgr. I am running the latest FW on AX86 and did a factory reset but still happened. Previous version was working no issue, however I can't seem to roll back. I'm not sure if it's just me or anyone else but using the standard VPN Client is working fine.

 

[Jack Yaz]

@Jack Yaz
Had to remove the latest version... Nord keeps disconnecting with "Error connecting, authentication failed." I've reset my password as using the credentials in my Nord account. I'm testing it with it uninstalled not sure if Nord has updated something, or it doesn't like the latest version of vpnmgr. I am running the latest FW on AX86 and did a factory reset but still happened. Previous version was working no issue, however I can't seem to roll back. I'm not sure if it's just me or anyone else but using the standard VPN Client is working fine.

i did change some of the custom options for the VPN client to improve reliability and security, perhaps they are to blame if you can reinstall vpnmgr, can you use the custom settings option (to populate them) then turn them off, and try re-adding auth-nocache please?