Deluge Forum

I am running Deluge Daemon.
I have a script that brings up an alarm when my VPN is no longer active. When this happens, I also want to stop all Deluge Daemon traffic (i.e. down and uploads).
Is there a command, e.g from the command prompt, that I can use to stop and then start the traffic?

Best practice would be to kill Deluge entirely when the VPN dies. There are applications that can do this for you such as VPNetMon:

http://vpnetmon.webs.com/

This app can also be configured to restart Deluge when the VPN comes back up, but I would be very careful with that option.

Thank you for your response;
I already have a Kill switch in my VPN. hover sometimes the VPN manager shuts down randomly.
Most VPN monitors monitors the IP address of the VPN which often changes so that is not a good option for me.

I have my own monitor that checks if the VPN manager is running, and if not, it can take action.

The question, was how to stop the traffic by command. I can kill Deluge by command prompt (in the same way as I kill it from task manager or by one of the VPN monitor programs). However, when I do this, it causes a problem when restarting Deluge; it needs to check all files that were open when the Deluge was killed.

Isn't there a "gentler" way of stopping Deluge Traffic w/o corrupting the file status?

You don't say exactly how you are killing the process but force killing would cause issues. Are you doing as described here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/145882/how-to- ... n-windows/

The problem arise when I kill the task from task manager. Wouldn't: also cause issues?

End task in task manager shouldn't force kill as far as i am aware.

The kill command (without extra options) requests a standard shutdown of deluged.

I was able to create a rule-set in (free) Comodo Firewall; Deluge traffic is only allowed as long as the VPN is running (regardless of IP address).
Works great .