Tier 1 gateway not switching back after failover
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Re: Multi-WAN gateway failover not switching back to tier 1 gw after back online
The last post on the thread above is 2 months old and the thread itself is over 3 years old. The problem still persists. To summarise:
- WAN-1 is Tier 1
- WAN-2 is Tier 2 (expensive metered cell hotspot, so should only be used for WAN-2 failure conditions)
- One Gateway group with "packet loss or high latency" as trigger (http://take.ms/wQPAR)
- Default gateway is marked as this gateway group (http://take.ms/fG9m7)
- State killing on gateway failure is "checked"
- Running pfSense 2.4.4
When WAN-1 goes down, the failover happens seamlessly but even when WAN-1 is back online and this online state is known to pfSense (confirmed via pfSense dashboard), traffic keeps routing through WAN-2 until I go hit "save" somewhere (without changing anything) and then everything switches back to WAN-1.
Since WAN-2 is a metered cell connection, I'd like for it not to be used once WAN-1 comes back online. Any way to achieve this programatically because it does not look like the auto switch back to WAN-1 is a feature that pfSense supports.
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@ibbetsion
Sorry for replying to a (almost) 4 year old topic.
But I'm having the same issue. Running pfSense v2.6.0 and having multiple VPN WAN interfaces in a failover. Once tier 1 is back online after an outtage it does not switch back to tier 1 and stays on tier 2 or 3.Created a topic myself as well:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/171368/multi-vpn-wan-failover-gateway-group-no-auto-switching-back-to-tier-1Did you ever find any solution to this?
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@panja I posted a solution, see this post.
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@ibbetsion
Many thanks! I'll have a look at it. Cheers!
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Same problem led me here. Hard to believe this is still a hack!
