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    Upload not working on GW_Failover

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      It would be much better to use a separate VLAN interface than using the workaround firewall rule if you can. Without VLANs you are still using asymmetric routing just masking the issue. But I'd almost guaranty it will come back to bite you at some point.

      Steve

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      • GiaNNG
        GiaNN @stephenw10
        last edited by

        @stephenw10 i know, but i've never used VLANs before and when i tried this morning i think i messed up something, i'll see some documentation/ tutorial on how to use them and i'll try.
        Are you sure the static route problem won't cause problem even with a VLAN?
        Thank You.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Using the VLAN eliminates the asymmetry. All traffic to and from the 4G router then has to go through pfSense via the LAN and VLAN interfaces. Currently traffic can go directly between the 4G router and LAN hosts without going through pfSense.

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          • GiaNNG
            GiaNN @stephenw10
            last edited by GiaNN

            @stephenw10 yes i think tomorrow i'll work on that, because right now my PPPoEv4 isn't letting any traffic through so i think i messed something. Even setting it up as gateway it doesn't work.
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            (my v6 PPPoE comes from the v4)
            luckily i had a backup and restored it LOL.

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            • GiaNNG
              GiaNN @stephenw10
              last edited by GiaNN

              @stephenw10 Hi, i resume this thread to say that i configured correctly the VLAN and now the failover works perfectly also i configured CodelQ with a 30Mbit limiter (BTW Thank You), there's only a little thing that annoys me: my backup Sim changes IP every 4 hours so the firewall sends me 2 messages like these:
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              Is there a way to turn off notifications on that gateway and at the same time keeping the monitoring on to detect if it works or not?

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Not within the pfSense GUI. It always notifies about gateway events. And you need the gateway monitoring and actions enabled to make sure failover works correctly.
                You could assume it's always up and disable monitoring actions on the 4G router gateway. That might be acceptable.

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                • GiaNNG
                  GiaNN @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10 said in Upload not working on GW_Failover:

                  Not within the pfSense GUI

                  is it possible via CLI?
                  Otherwise i can see if i can do something through the telegram bot or i'll do the always up.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Anything is possible with code! 😉

                    But it not something I'm familiar with. There have been calls for better granularity in notifications. There might be some examples in the forum.

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                    • GiaNNG
                      GiaNN @stephenw10
                      last edited by GiaNN

                      @stephenw10 well, guess i have to find what's the code PFsense uses to send telegram messages. Thank You
                      I did it!
                      I added the string if (str_contains($data["text"],"LTE_Backup_VLAN")) return 0 to the etc/inc/
                      /notices.inc file and it works, it doesn't send me messages about that gateway but still monitors it, but still checking if everything works.

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                      • GiaNNG
                        GiaNN @GiaNN
                        last edited by

                        @GiaNN i'll do some other testing because it seems that so It won't send any message besides the test one

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