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<font size="-1">Have you thought about using IPsec for your VPN's
and enabling it's "Dead peer detection" works great if you need a
permanent VPN. You will find quite a few Firewalls and routers
with it built in.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/09/15 23:26, Jason Irwin wrote:<br>
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<div>Have you ever found that when dealing with IT,
you vanish down a rabbit hole only to emerge back
into the light and be incapable of seeing what is in
front of you face?<br>
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Seems there may be a number of factors making my life
hell:<br>
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1) Dodgy power - there was a cut at around 1500 which
tallies with when my connection dropped.<br>
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2) Dodgy Internet - the Pi is betwixt two Spanish villages
and that is as problematic as you can imagine,<br>
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3) The VPN - although it's based on OpenVPN, either the way
it's configured or 2) above just makes it really brittle.
I'm considering pulling that now as, for reasons, it is no
longer serving the intended function (and I've half a mind
to run-up my one on some of those Scaleway ARM doofers, for
reasons).<br>
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Given 1) and 2), is there a good approach to restablishing
connections? I can imagine writing arcane scripts along the
lines of "IF 'ping google' is ok THEN do stuff ELSE sleep for
longer" but I can't help thinking this has to be a solved
problem. Probably 10 different ways... :-)<br>
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<div>Hmm...would a 9V battery works as the UPS for a Pi?.... :-)<br>
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<div>I've nw got systemd throwing a grump on reboot, at least
that means it's trying to run my test script. Progres!<br>
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<div>Thanks for all the help on this - currently installing
Ubuntu 15.04 (I had the .iso on the drive) so i can muck about
with systemd. Fingers crossed.<br>
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