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    Configure multiple WANs from one Gateway

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Routing and Multi WAN
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      Happydog
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      Obvi not actual IPs but from ISP:
      IP 50.50.50.1/29
      GW 50.50.50.2
      Static IPs available: 50.50.50.3 - 7

      Want to use two addresses to create seperate WANs. ISP feed is switched to two physical ports (say WAN1 & WAN2) on Netgate 6100. So I would like two WANS. Say 50.50.50.3 & 50.50.50.5

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        smirkis
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        if you want to run 2 cables like that you could: set wan1 to static ip 50.50.50.3/29 with GW 50.50.50.2 (add gw manually if needed) and leave dhcp for it disabled. then wan2 to static ip 50.50.50.5/29 with GW 50.50.50.2 (select previously created).

        is this with at&t ip blocc? just curious. i use the first ip in my blocc as my "wan1", but instead of running 4 more cables from a switch, that came from 1 cable out of their gateway (or 4 from their gateway to to my 4 wans that dont exist lol), i use viritual IPs and either 1:1 a subnet under NAT or a specific server, or however you want to use it. for incoming you can receive pings to those virtual IPs and nat forward them however you want. all without extra cables or 4 physical WANs to log

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          Happydog @smirkis
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          @smirkis What I thought but there is no option to select the (say) GW 50.50.50.2. When I set up the second interface, the only GW options are None and "Add another GW". I thought that the existing GWs would be in the dropdown box but they aren't. Tx

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            viragomann @Happydog
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            @Happydog
            Having multiple interfaces within the same subnet is not a supported setup and makes not sense at all.

            You can assign additional IP addresses as virtual (IP alias or Proxy ARP) to a single interface, however.

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