2.21.8 tries to detect the default gateway at startup, hence those who enable the network later will run into issues.
This is fixed in 2.22.0 ready to be released as experimental version, we are only waiting for confirmation.
About ping issue, honestly I haven't found a solution yet: we never reproduce the issue
(in this video https://www.clodo.it/files/temp/ping.mp4 i have OS ping both in Linux and Windows, and Eddie in both OS always matches the outcome).
Still under investigation, we need to identify the reason and reproduce it, in order to fix.
It's normal that, when connected to a VPN server, ping results are not populated or updated. Ping aims at finding the best server to connect to, therefore collecting results when you are connected to a server is useless.
Those who allegedly experience the ping issue should confirm it WITHOUT ever trying to connect (open Eddie only), and should specify the OS (apparently there's no macOS user with this issue?).
Thanks