Starting up automatically (re-)starting the VPN

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi,

@Nikox9

and I even added Restart=on-failure in the /lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service file under [Service] section

This only works if openvpn crashes, not if the vpn tunnel goes down. You could try creating a watchdog timer/server like this:-

Eth0 not connected- vpn setup issue?

Hi, Been looking in to this again, since dill posted. I’m currently testing a solution, but my vpn is pretty solid; but simulating a drop; it worked. You could try this: /etc/systemd/system/openvpn-watchdog.timer: [Unit] Description=OpenVPN Watchdog timer [Timer] OnCalendar=*:0/15 [Install] WantedBy=timers.target /etc/systemd/system/openvpn-watchdog.service: [Unit] Description=OpenVPN Watchdog service ConditionPathExists=!/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/tun0 [Service] ExecStart=/bin/systemctl r…

Regards Tom.