Failover WAN, banging my head
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Hi,
I'm trying to figure out why my dual WAN doesn't work using a 2100.
I have little knowledge on both VLAN and multi WAN setups so bare with me...So, I have a 4G router that I was thinking of using as a failover solution.
The first step is to get a green status on both my gateways but no matter what I do, the status for the second WAN is offline.- My current LAN configuration is 192.168.100.0/32.
- The 4G Router LAN configuration is set to 192.168.1.0/32.
I Created a new VLAN with the tag 999.
Later I enabled the 802.1q VLAN mode to be able to edit the port members where the default VLAN Group (0) is using tag 1 with members 1,2,3,5.
and the new VLAN Group (1) is using tag 999 with member 4.Under the switch and port configuration, I changed port 4 to use Port VID 999.
I then assigned OPT1 to use the new VLAN (999) using a static IP address (192.168.1.2) and with no upstream gateway.
A new Gateway (OPT1GW) was created using the address 192.168.1.2 with a monitor IP of 8.8.8.8. Everything else is set to the default values.
This results in that I (from net 192.168.100.0) can reach pfSense at 192.168.1.2 using the 4th ethernet port but the gateway status page still shows "Offline" for the 4G router.
Any suggestions what I might be doing wrong or have forgotten to enable / disable?
Regards
Mikael -
@mikael-0 Skimming that, is 192.168.1.2 the IP set on OPT1? Then it seems like the gateway of that interface should be the IP of the 4G router. You wrote you set no gateway...?
Also a /32 mask is only that IP address, usually the mask is /24. a /32 can't talk to any other IP on the network.
doc on isolating a port:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/configuring-the-switch-ports.html