VPN Request for 380.xx

I just recently stumbled on Merlin, and LOVE that it's not a wholesale firmware replacement. I have a VPN provider, and configured my router as a client yesterday and it was up and running. This morning I check, and for some reason it is disabled. So two improvements I'd like to see:

1) On the VPN status, show 'uptime' of the tunnel
2) Be more aggressive in reconnecting to the VPN server

I'm connected to the same VPN server via a desktop client, and it didn't drop during the time the...

VPN Request for 380.xx