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Not sure if nobody's ever asked this, or if there is a minimum character limit for this forum's search ("vpn" gets zero hits)... probably the latter.

Anyway, are there any hooks or anything so that I can turn my VPN on right before a download starts and turn it off right after it ends, and have it fail (or pause) if the VPN fails to start?

Thanks.

Why do you want this? If you want to route your newsserver traffic through a VPN, it's maybe better to only do that: sudo ip route add <newsserver> via <vpn-interface>, and keep your default route to your local gateway.

You can do that!? Lol... you wouldn't believe how much I searched and asked on linux forums, etc... never got a hint like that till now! Thank you sir.

Hmm... although... how do I find out what "vpn-interface" is? Sorry, I'm not very familiar with networking or linux in general so I'm just limping along. If I don't have the VPN currently active, ifconfig (or ip -a or whatever) doesn't list my tun0... its only there when I have the vpn active, but then all traffic is going through it. The problem with that... well, that's no problem IF it were reliable, but I'm finding that if I have the VPN active full time that I lose the connection randomly about 2 or 3 time a day.

If you can hold my hand, just a little more... it'd be appreciated. Meanwhile, I'll use your tips above to try to find it on my own. Thanks again.

absteeve wrote:You can do that!? Lol... you wouldn't believe how much I searched and asked on linux forums, etc... never got a hint like that till now! Thank you sir.

Can you give the pointers/URLs to the forum where you asked?