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I have a two routers connected via OpenVPN and I have a small issue. Any time the client router reboots (ie: power flicker), it 'forgets' the date/time and this prevents it from making a connection to the server until I manually set the date/time. I'm wondering if anyone can help me add something to my WAN Up script that would record the date/time periodically to a file, and a command in my init script that would set the date/time from that same file?

Is this even possible?

Is there a better solution (keeping in mind that the client router cannot access the net until the VPN connection is made)?

All of this is on the client router.

In Adminstration/Scheduler/Custom (Enabled, Every minute, Everyday):

cdt=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`;[ $cdt -gt 201000000000 ]&&echo -n $cdt>/<path>/cdt

In Administration/Scripts/WAN Up:

[ -s /<path>/cdt ]&&date -s `cat /<path>/cdt`

Replace <path> with the path to some sort of permanent storage that is mounted automatically (I'd strongly advise against jffs since the flash will wear out quickly - use either USB or CIFS if possible, if you *must* use jffs then change the frequency in the scheduler to the bare minimum you can live with, depending on how much skew OpenVPN can tolerate…I was unable to find any solid information on what that value is on the 'net).

Rodney
Rodney