How to autostart OpenVPN client on boot?

[cotriseffuka]

Hello,

I'm currently on OpenWrt 21.02.1 r16325-88151b8303.

I followed this tutorial for setting up the OpenVPN client: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/client-luci

But I can't get the tunnel to automatically mount on startup. I am systematically obliged to go to: A.B.C.D./cgi-bin/luci/admin/vpn/openvpn and click on "Start" corresponding to my OpenVPN instance.

Then I have to go to A.B.C.D./cgi-bin/luci/admin/network/diagnostics: to ping my remote LAN via the Network Utilities to pass some packets otherwise, despite the connection being OK, no packet passes .

I'm sure the solution is quite simple but I didn't find my happiness in the documentation.

Thanks for your help.

[maurer]

To autostart on boot you need to issue "/etc/init.d/openvpn enable". Haven't check the tutorial in the link but the you need to have everything configured in "/etc/config/openvpn" as another prerequisite

[cotriseffuka]

Thank you maurer for your simple and effective answer. I applied your command line and I rebooted and "voila" my tunnel was mounted after the reboot !