Turn your VPN on/off

[Seth Kazzim]

I'm using Merlin atm, so the command below will work.

ssh router-admin-name@router-ip service stop_vpnclient1
ssh router-admin-name@router-ip service start_vpnclient1

You will need to turn off allow password login and generate/add the keys from your machine.

But it works well. I will write up a full guide, only took me about a day to figure out so it can't be that hard.

[Scott Barton]

For OpenWRT you can start the VPN interface with:
ifup VPNInterfaceName

And Stop it with:
ifdown VPNInterfaceName

More info:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/basic-networking#network_management

[Seth Kazzim]

Thanks for that tip, Scott.

I will add that to my guide on r/SmartHome.