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    Introducing Netgate Nexus: Multi-Instance Management at Your Fingertips.

    Start/Stop specific OVPN instance from command line/script ?

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    • G Offline
      gridrun
      last edited by

      How can we start/stop a specific OpenVPN instance from a script?

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Not easily possible on pfSense 2.0.x

        Easy on pfSense 2.1:

        pfSsh.php playback svc stop openvpn server 2
        pfSsh.php playback svc start openvpn server 2
        pfSsh.php playback svc restart openvpn server 2

        The # is the actual VPN ID, the one you'll see in the links to the service controls on the service status page.

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