Loadbalance offline
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is this normal? it seems to be working fine even though it says offline.
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Its not normal. Do your gateways respond to ICMP traffic?
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yes . the wierd thing is it working fine. Here is my pool setup maybe i did something wrong
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huh. I don't have a clue.
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Have you tried to have separate monitor IPs when you add your WAN multiple times?
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Second messr Gruen, you MUST use different monitor IPs for each WAN link or you will have weird results along the lines of what you're describing. (Not that I'd know from experience or anything :).
Also, as a crucial sanity check, use the diagnostics ping test to the monitor IP with the respective interface selected. You'll see notes saying that the ping test doesn't work reliably in multi-WAN and this is sort of true, but the key here is that the monitoring system is simply doing a ping as well!
Have seen some very illogical pseudo-failure modes that were resolved by using the diag ping to figure out which monitoring IP was "appropriate", (i.e. worked at all), for each WAN link. There was no rhyme or reason to what did or didn't work but they were at least consistent and the system is rock solid once you've sussed out the right combination. And having gone through the process on quite a few of these now I can safely say that it is necessary! (At least as of v1.2.2).
Also a tip - don't use the gateway as your monitor IP on any of them. Too easy for the ISP to be having routing issues and you can't past their core so the link is functionally down even though you can reach the gateway. So for each WAN link be sure to pick a (diag-pingable) IP which is outside of your ISPs network.
