#SYNOLOGY VPN CLIENT HOW TO#

Simplified, the script reads the last line from the openvpn log, since I am using an openvpn connection. For my example, I simply added a task that will execute the following bash script every 10 minutes:

#SYNOLOGY VPN CLIENT HOW TO#

The problem mentioned in the preamble of this article, is rather easy to solve, once we know how to connect and disconnect the VPN client via command line. Automatically reconnecting a VPN connection After executing the connect command, it should switch to connected. In fact, if you open the UI alongside the terminal, you will see, that the UI state changes to connecting, after we write the first line into the file. Sudo sh -c 'echo proto=openvpn > /usr/syno/etc/synovpnclient/vpnc_connecting' Sudo sh -c 'echo conf_name=HIDE > /usr/syno/etc/synovpnclient/vpnc_connecting' Sudo sh -c 'echo conf_id=o1462043059 > /usr/syno/etc/synovpnclient/vpnc_connecting' The script requires either the name of the connection, as it is saved in the UI via -name=MYVPN or the id via -id=XXX. In order to disconnect a VPN connection, we can use the kill_client function of synovpnc. Simply typing the synovpnc command will give us sufficient information about its usage. vpnc_connecting - A ( only temporary) flag file, this will be very important later!.scripts - Internal scripts by the VPN client.openvpn - Holds configs for openvpn connections.pptp - Holds configs for pptp connections.l2tp - Holds configs for l2tp connections.Also, the binary file the disk station uses for connection handling is found at /usr/syno/bin/synovpnc, aliased to synovpnc.Ī list of the files and directories in this directory: All of the relevant files for this are found in /usr/syno/etc/synovpnclient. Synology is using various scripts and flags for handling vpn connections. Sadly, Synology doesn’t make that simply exactly simple. The only way I found to fix this, is simply reconnecting to the VPN server. That’s all fine and good, however, as soon as the VPN client gets into a timeout, it will try to resolve the host name in the config via the VPN gateway, which is now inaccessible. For example, the reason I am writing this is, I am using an OpenVPN connection on my second Synology station together with multiple gateways. Synology DSM offers you a quite simple interface for managing your VPN connections, however, aside the fact that it is missing a lot of advanced options, that are needed for certain providers, it also lacks the possibility of automation.

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