Ok this is not a one off problem… This seems to repeat itself until I need to revert the firmware and start all over again.
I purchased the Flint speciifically to run OpenVPN with Nord and Adguard for my home. The side benefit was that I could tether it to my phone if my ISP goes down.
The problem.
It seems that I can turn the VPN on and off with no issues when I first set it up from factory. Then I turn on Adguard and only use the disable protection button on the management page if I need to bypass that once in a while.
However after a few days the router will NOT allow me to disconnect the VPN. I click disconnect and it fails and then just give an abort button which does nothing. A reboot and even a power cycle wont clear this. Also the internet is blocked at that point… I I was using the TCP VPN at the time. I did try and fire up the UDP version and that worked but again… I could not shut it down once it was enabled.
Adguard does the same thing… I cannot shut it down at all. Once its in this state I have to revert the firmware… This is a huge issue as I cannot trust enabling these features again until they are solid…
I cannot believe nobody else has run into this…
I am typing this after a complete firmware revert
Afterthought… Wonder if I should use Wireguard instead of Openvpn. Supposedly much faster??