Hahaha... you definitely crossed the line with that, @Stephen Harrington! In solidarity, I'm announcing that I'm moving up my retirement date by 5 years. LOLThat would indeed be a heavy burden to bear - to have been responsible for @thelonelycoder retiring by my insufficiently prominent "&" ...
If you were to retire from being thelonelycoder, what would you do? and, who would you be? I think those questions are much harder to answer than if you stayed the awesome way you are and threw out that retirement hat that does not quite yet fit the way you would like.I seem to be too old for this or impatient to read the whole line. You are correct, I missed the & at the end of the line that I often use in my scripts. Time to retire
While I can't speak for VPNFailover since I haven't used it for quite a while, there are some similarities, but VPNMON-R2 certainly builds on it. You definitely have a few other parameters to play with, like randomization and scheduled resets, but also other reset factors like high ping load, or letting it automatically connect to the fastest server in your list. Plus, the interface was built to give you a lot of info on your current connection, exit cities, stats, etc. Feel free to give it a try... If you need any assistance, or have any good ideas that would make it even better, you can always drop a line here.
It's back to normal this morning. Thank you for the follow-up.Nope, nothing changed. That happens from time to time. I believe when the API gets hit too hard or gets overloaded, it just doesn't respond back with a city lookup, and vpnmon-r2 in that case will just default to the exit IP. It happens to me frequently when I do a lot of testing, where I'm hitting it on a very frequent basis.
Give it a few minutes, kill the script, and try it again... it will most likely work.
#!/bin/sh
########################
## call-monitors.sh
########################
LogCmd="/usr/bin/logger -sct "$0_$$""
_DoExit_() {
$LogCmd "EXIT $1"
exit $1
}
$LogCmd "START"
# Set Maximum Timeout value as you see fit #
MaxTimeout=600
SleepSecs=2
TimerSecs=0
OptBinFile="/opt/sbin/screen"
if [ "$1" == "DNS" ]; then
ScriptFile="sh /jffs/scripts/merlin-dns-monitor.sh"
ScreenName="dnsmon"
elif [ "$1" == "VPN" ]; then
ScriptFile="sh /jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r2.sh -monitor"
ScreenName="vpnmon-r2"
else
$LogCmd "ERROR: Incorrect argument passed. [$1]"
_DoExit_ 2
fi
if [ ! -f $ScriptFile ]; then
$LogCmd "ERROR: [$ScriptFile] NOT found."
_DoExit_ 1
fi
until [ -f $OptBinFile ] || [ $TimerSecs -ge $MaxTimeout ]; do
sleep $SleepSecs
TimerSecs=$(($TimerSecs + $SleepSecs))
done
if [ ! -f $OptBinFile ]; then
$LogCmd "ERROR: [$OptBinFile] NOT found."
_DoExit_ 2
fi
$LogCmd "Launching $ScriptFile"
$OptBinFile -dmS $ScreenName $ScriptFile
_DoExit_ 0
#EOF#if [ -x ${1}/entware/bin/opkg ] && [ -f /jffs/scripts/call-monitors.sh ]; then
/jffs/scripts/call-monitors.sh DNS &
/jffs/scripts/call-monitors.sh VPN &
fiNICE. That is one *beast* of an autostart! Love it!
I should probably update it to use CASE statements instead of IF. I think it would be cleaner.
Thank you very much @RimRider ... that will be corrected in the next release! I'm going to blame the cat on that one... she was staring me down at the time from behind my laptop...
Absolutely! Just make sure you have pre-filled and preconfigured your VPN slots. And then let her loose!
LOL... thanks @Wrkdbf_Guy! Really, it's super transparent, and adds another nice layer of privacy on our already privacy-trampled worlds. It's pretty affordable too, and decent options out there. I'm not here to endorse NordVPN, but they make it extremely easy to work with from an API standpoint... their mobile app is great too. SurfShark and Perfect Privacy are also very good at keeping up with modern times. There are lots of other VPN providers out there that are excellent, but from from an interfacing standpoint for scripts like this, they make things much more difficult if they don't offer an API. I definitely try to give my ISP a run for their money as my family and I pop out of 2000 random VPN servers all over the country on a continuous basis.
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I don't really check for the "lightest load"... but there's a parameter that will reset your connection if it exceeds a certain load? What's your load parameter set to? Default = 50.
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