Improvement to wireguard_watchdog script?

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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LoL - yeah sophisticated.. that's what I call it.

More like cobbled together and attempting to be as seamless (but useful) as possible. I don't want to stray too far from the beaten path which is why I'm asking questions about the wireguard_watchdog implementation.

Your comments have meant I've locally modified my copy of the watchdog script to have this

  idle_seconds=$(($(date +%s)-${last_handshake}))
  [ ${idle_seconds} -lt 250 ] && return 0;
  logger -t "wireguard_monitor" "${iface} endpoint ${endpoint_host}:${endpoint_port} is not responding for ${idle_seconds} seconds, trying to re-resolve hostname"
  wg set ${iface} peer ${public_key} endpoint "${endpoint_host}:${endpoint_port}"
  if [ ${idle_seconds} -gt 600 ]; then
    ifdown ${iface}
    ifup ${iface}
  fi
}

Two changes here.

  1. Bumped the ignore it cut off to 250 seconds from 150
  2. only if idle_seconds hits more than 600 seconds will I use the hammer to down/up the interface.
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