I might be wrong but wouldn't that be a job for devd ?

Alternatively set a cron job every minute to reinstall the route.



On 16 Jun 2013, at 12:22, Bernard Higonnet <bth...@higonnet.net> wrote:

> I have a machine, FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0, running a VPN (MPD5) server.
> 
> Every once in a while, the link goes down, presumably because of some 
> third-party event on the network.
> 
> When this happens, an element placed in the routing table by hand disappears 
> since the node on the VPN server to the far-off client machine no longer 
> exists (even though the entry in the routing table is marked "permanent" when 
> it does exist). When the network problem goes away, the VPN link is 
> automatically restored, but not the routing table.
> 
> Can someone tell me if there is a way to be notified that the link has been 
> restored so that I can run a script etc. to restore the routing table to what 
> I want?
> 
> TIA
> Bernard Higonnet
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