PSA: using darkstat on any non-default interface requires editing the init script

[luckman212]

I am (still) trying to troubleshoot phantom data usage on my wwan/qmimuxN interface, seems to be a failover / mwan3 problem. While doing so, I found that the darkstat package will not start properly when configured for a non-default interface such as qmimux0.

I did find a workaround:

vi /etc/init.d/darkstat

change line 41 to:

network_get_device ifname "$interface" || ifname="$interface"

see

• Configuring darkstat (package) - #8 by luckman212 - Installing and Using OpenWrt - OpenWrt Forum
• On Teltonika RUTx devices, the init script fails due to failure to resolve interface name · Issue #25315 · openwrt/packages · GitHub

[luckman212]

Since nobody has replied to this, before the topic is auto-closed I will just say that this has been working well for me, hopefully the change will be eventually baked into the package directly.

[flebourse]

Hello,

darkstat works fine on recent openwrt versions and a non-default interface without the workaround. The basic scripts from /lib/functions/network.sh are identical, the cause must be somewhere else.

Regards,