I have never heard of this before. I’m just guessing here, but have you tried binding you qBit client to the VPN interface (tun0 or the likes)? Normally that’s not why you that, but I wonder if it could somehow force the VPN to stay alive… Meanwhile, some more info that people might be asking for, with which you may want to edit your post, are output of: ip link (when VPN is running and when qBit is running) journalctl /use/bin/qbittorrent (or the location where your qBit is installed) journalctl /use/bin/[whatever the VPN executable is called] (or the location where your VPN is installed) sudo dmesg | grep -i "torrent" sudo dmesg | grep -i "proton" -sudo dmesg -l err