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WAN Failover

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:01 pm
by Eliminateur
Hello,
i have a RB450 with a directly connected CM(standard IP) and there's a wireless router with a ADSL connection.
the RB is 192.168.1.2
the router 192.168.1.1

right now, when the CM goes poof, users need to manually change heir DF gateway and it works.

how can i make it so that RB does this automatically for all kinds of traffic?(WAN link failover)

i want to keep the other router as is for safeward(as it's foolproof and it's been working for ages)

Re: WAN Failover

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:30 am
by jwcn
There is an example of this in the Wiki.

Re: WAN Failover

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:48 am
by Eliminateur
i've been searching the wiki prior to posting and haven't found it(the wiki has a lot of unlinked pages, it should be easier to navigate from the root, yet....)
one thing a friend mentioned is getting the 2nd gateway with a higher metric than the CM one.

that's all nice, but how do i do gateway ping check on the main gateway if it's assigned by DHCP?(CM address provided by DHCP), it can't be set statically at all.
all i see is the gateway created dynamically but nothing to edit in there, how do i ping check that?

Re: WAN Failover

Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:12 am
by savage
VRRP comes to mind...