packages/utils/watchcat, branch master

watchcat: update package maintainers

2026-07-09T06:12:14Z

List Daniel F. Dickinson and Dharmik Parmar as watchcat maintainers. This gives future package issues and reviews active contacts. Signed-off-by: Dharmik Parmar

watchcat: resolve logical interface names

2026-07-09T06:12:14Z

Allow logical interface references in watchcat interface options. Resolve those names to real netifd devices for ping -I. Keep logical names for ifup and real-device find_config behavior. Use separate helpers for ping and restart values to avoid eval. Treat ModemManager mm_iface_name=null as empty, not a modem name. Signed-off-by: Dharmik Parmar

watchcat: clarify recovery timer baseline

2026-07-01T11:59:43Z

Keep the default restart timing based on the moment the recovery action is triggered. The optional reset_failure_timer path still starts a fresh failure window after the recovery action finishes. This makes the two timing modes explicit. Signed-off-by: Dharmik Parmar

watchcat: add optional failure timer reset

2026-06-23T06:16:47Z

Add an opt-in reset_failure_timer option for restart_iface and run_script modes. When enabled, watchcat starts a fresh failure window after the recovery action finishes before allowing another recovery action. The existing behavior remains the default. Document the intended default and reset_failure_timer timing behavior in TIMINGS.md and use a safer string comparison for the reset_failure_timer check. Signed-off-by: Dharmik Parmar

watchcat: clarify restart log wording

2026-06-23T06:16:47Z

Clarify the restart_iface logging so the message reflects that the configured action happens only after the failure period is reached. Signed-off-by: Dharmik Parmar

watchcat: use logical network to fix restart_interface

2026-04-11T06:13:01Z

Watchcat was failing to restart layer-3 interfaces when in mode 'restart_iface'. The previously attempted fix made the situation worse in that it resulted in layer 2 interfaces also failing to start. This was because we are passed the interface name (e.g. eth0, l2p0, or br-lan), but ifup needs the logical network (e.g. 'lan' which corresponds to the network device). Update to use find_config from /lib/network/config.sh to find the logical network from the interface name, and use ifup on the logical network to restart the underlying interface(s) associated with the logical network. Signed-off-by: Daniel F. Dickinson

watchcat: fix interface reset does not work

2026-03-03T18:06:13Z

As reported in #23410 Network interface reset doesn't work as expected on a Wireguard VPN interface and in #27927 lt2p interface won't reboot, and mentioned in #27248, the current implementation of the option to restart an interface when connectivity check fails for some period does not result in an interface restart for all interface. Notably 'virtual' interfaces such as Wireguard and L2TP do not restart. The solution that works is to use `ifup ` instead of only changing the link status. This commit is based on the one in #27248 by @rondoval, who unfortunately has not updated the commit message as requested for half a year. Signed-off-by: Daniel F. Dickinson

luci-app-watchcat: revert unnecessary quoting in init script

2025-12-26T08:51:51Z

The quoting added in r18 for pinghosts is not needed. Multi-host support remains fully functional, but the extra quotes caused inconsistent argument handling between /etc/init.d/watchcat and /usr/bin/watchcat.sh, especially for single-IP configurations. This revert removes the unnecessary quoting in the init script and LUCI, restoring consistent behavior while keeping multiple ping hosts supported. Fixes: #28100 (watchcat: error if only one address is specified in pinghosts) Signed-off-by: Ivan Diaz

watchcat: passing the interface in the ping_reboot

2025-12-12T15:40:40Z

Although the watchcat_ping function also checked the iface variable, that variable was never populated. As a result we could not check if there was connectivity via a specific interface. Signed-off-by: Vasileios Anagnostopoulos

watchcat: set default value for mmifacename to prevent argument shift

2025-12-09T11:12:19Z

Set mmifacename default to "null" instead of an empty string to avoid argument displacement when the value is not defined. Also remove leftover debug comments from previous commit. Signed-off-by: Ivan Diaz