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 VPN Watching bash script for use with OpenVPN on Openwrt
 
  Standard bash script, requires bash install on OpenWrt
- and monit to be installed and configured
+ and monit to be installed and configured. Monit is a 
+ system monitoring software that also trigger actions
+ as a result of certain events. In my case monit was being
+ used to ping the domain in this script and on potential
+ failure this bash script was invoked. You could alternatively
+ also use cron to trigger a check periodically. 
 
  We assume a few things when this is called, first
  that the VPN DNS (Expressvpn) is failing second