Flopping wan - how to fallback gracefully?
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Hi,
I have 2 wan links configured as gateway group failover.
Both of them are far from ideal and fail quite often, but failover helps most of the times.
Better, (less bad) wan have tendency to flop a lot after coming back from hard fail - being stable for 2 minutes, then getting 50%packet loss for another 2, disconnecting totally for another minute and so on.
The question: is there a way to wait fot some amount of time with stable connection before falling back to main wan in gw. group?
While doing so, I won't like to reduce failover sensitivity, which is great in my use case.Lastly, thanks for all the work you put in pfSense, what a great product!
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@mzabik not possible to set a time config (unless maybe you fiddle with scripts in the OS but that's unsupported and probably hard to do) but you have options for "high latency" and "packet loss" that should satisfy your needs. Try using packet loss instead of member down if that's the way it's set up now.
Otherwise the short answer is get a better WAN.