I have a PPoE connection to the internet called ADSL and a SSTP VPN client connection called VPN.
My ISP disconnects me every 24h and RB automatically reconnects. The problem is, the VPN connection stays connected but doesn't work after the PPoE reconnection.

I would like to create a script that when the status of the interface ADSL changes to any other status than connected, disables the VPN interface and when the status of the interface ADSL changes back to connected, enables the VPN interface.

It looks simple but I have no scripting skills and so far I'm not able to make a working script, which gets the status of the ADSL interface.

Can anybody please help me?

Thank you.

Use the NetWatch on the Tools menu. You can have it watch the PPPoE interface, when the PPPoE goes down, use a script to reset both of them.

Thank you for the idea.
But the PPoE interface has a dynamic IP, so I have to watch an external address, which could lead to false alarms.
If I could watch the status of the interface directly, that would help.

Use the NetWatch on the Tools menu. You can have it watch the PPPoE interface, when the PPPoE goes down, use a script to reset both of them.

I tested the idea.

I watch the ADSL gateway address, I hope it doesn't change. On down I disable the VPN interface, on up I enable it.
The ADSL reconnection is very fast - around 3 seconds, I had to set ping interval to 1 second to catch the reconnection, which on the other hand generates unnecessary traffic.

There must be some other, better way ...

Okay, new idea. If you know that the connection will drop every 24 hours, how about a script that runs at say 3am..
Have that script take down the VPN (Disable SSTP), Reset the ADSL, and clear all of the connections.
If you preempt the ISP maybe that will help.

Okay, new idea. If you know that the connection will drop every 24 hours, how about a script that runs at say 3am..
Have that script take down the VPN (Disable SSTP), Reset the ADSL, and clear all of the connections.
If you preempt the ISP maybe that will help.

So far I've used a workaround - I had set a session timeout to 24:00:00 in the PPP profile. But that wasn't 100% reliable.

The ISP reconnects me every 24h (-+ a couple of seconds) at the time the "first" connection was made, if I reconnect manually the ADSL say at 03:07 am, on the next day it reconnects automatically again on 03:07 am (-+ a couple of seconds). So I cannot prempt the ISP.

My idea is this:
The part of disabling, enabling the interface was relatively easy.
But I'm not able to get the status - /interface pppoe-client monitor status and I don't know if there even is a trigger - when status of interface ADSL changes.

So far I've set Netwatch to ping every second the internet gateway and disable the VPN interface if not successful, it works but it isn't 100% reliable.