Accessing modem on dual WAN setup

[shawnbutts]

I've got a dual WAN setup for failover. One is a cable modem (Arris SB8200) and cell (mofi4500 in bridge mode). Failover works as expected.

However, I can only access the management UI on the "modem" of the active path. I've got static routes setup to force traffic out the correct interface. But, I can still only get the the passive "modem" by forcing a failover and making it active. Ideally, I'd be able to get to them all the time.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[viragomann]

@shawnbutts
So both of your pfSense WANs have public IPs.

Are the WANs PPP or DHCP connections?

Are the modems accessible over private IPs?
If yes, did you also add private IPs to the pfSense interfaces which are facing to the modems?

[shawnbutts]

@viragomann
Both WANs are double NATed :(
WANs are DHCP
Models are accessible over the private IPs when that WAN is the "active" one.

The private IPs on the pfSense interfaces are not static.

[viragomann]

@shawnbutts
So both should be accessible independently if they are the default gateway in my opinion.

I assume, you have created a gateway group with different priorities for both?
And even if the gateway stated is "online" for both, only the actually used one is accessible by its private IP?

[serbus]

Hello!

I have a dual WAN setup with an LB1120 on WAN0 and Starlink on WAN1. My LAN is 10.15.15.0/24.

I use policy routing to hit the admin pages on the modems from the LAN. Here is a section of my LAN rules:

This works if the modems have different admin IPs.

John

[shawnbutts]

@viragomann Correct

[shawnbutts]

@serbus

That seems to have fixed it.

Thanks!!!