Testing whether the VPN is running?
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Tue Feb 23 03:24:45 EST 2016
On 18Feb2016 10:03, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>On 2016-02-18, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
>> I think that the psutil modul could be better for you for this
>> task:
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psutil/
>>
>> and see the "Network" section.
>
>if 'tun0' in psutil.net_if_addrs():
> # vpn is running
>
>Brilliant! I've used psutil for something else, but I didn't know it
>did that too. My excuse is that the version on my system was 2.2.1,
>which does not do that, so I installed the newer version with pip3.
>Thanks for pointing me to that.
You might also want to check that the interface is up.
My personal hack (not for a VPN, but for "being online", which turns my ssh
tunnels on and off) is to look in the output of "netstat -rn" for a default
route. This may imply that an alternative test for you is to test for a route
to your VPN's address range? Just an idea.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
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