Ping in remote network does not work from --up script

[Molt]

Hey there, I thought I would try a rather simple setup for the beginning. Sadly fail quite early

What I try is, to run a cronjob every night, which sets up an OpenVPN tunnel to a remote machine and then starts the backup script.


What works:

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    sudo openvpn --config /home/molt.ovpn

and then in another window:

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    ping 10.8.0.1

What does not work:

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    sudo openvpn --config /home/molt.ovpn --up /home/scripts/backup-worker.sh

I also tried --route-up

with backup-worker.sh:

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    ping -c 1 -W 120 10.8.0.1

What's going wrong?

I am on

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Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
OpenVPN 2.4.4 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on May 14 2019

Any help really appreciated, being stuck there since weeks o_O

[TinCanTech]

OpenVPN expects all scripts to complete before the tunnel will pass data. It is a security measure ..

[Molt]

thanks!
So I hope there is also an idea how to send data then

How is my use case supposed to be implemented? Having a script, which starts the tunnel in the background and asynchronously loops pinging and starts sending data, once the ping is successful?

Or is the idea to have the tunnel open as daemon 24/7?

[TinCanTech]

Correction; Openvpn expects all scripts started by the openvpn binary to complete successfully before it will pass data over the tunnel.

The script you use to start openvpn can do whatever you like.

[Molt]

So the only option is to start the tunnel from within a script which afterwards while-loops until pinging a certain IP is successful and only then starts sending data?

Shouldn't it be a major use-case to setup a tunnel and then send data? Is the only supported use-case to have the tunnel open all the time?