Connection Watchdog failing w/ VPN Client & Policy Based

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neerav
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 22:45    Post subject: Connection Watchdog failing w/ VPN Client & Policy Based Reply with quote
I have set up VPN Client (and server) and, of course, have to use Policy Based Routing to allow both to work together. PBR has a LAN IP range (192.168.1.11 to 255 entered as CIDR), and the router is 192.168.1.1.

Wanting to ensure the VPN is always up, the simplest solution found in the forum is to use WDS/Connection Watchdog to ping the VPN DNS server. It works great when NOT using OpenVPN server and PBR. However, when using PBR, the router is not in the PBR range, and thus can't ping the VPN DNS, which means the router restarts every x seconds as defined in Connection Watchdog.

Even a VPN kill switch requires pinging something only available when connected to VPN, which the router can't ping because it's not in PBR.

What is my solution to ensure VPN Client is always connected?

Using DD-WRT v3.0-r32170M kongac (06/11/17) on a Netgear R8000.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 22:28    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am having a similar, if not the same problem. Did you ever find a solution?
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