Failover WAN being used with Primary is still up
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I have two WAN Connections,
WAN1 - Highspeed - Unlimited
WAN2 - Backup - MeteredI have a gateway group with WAN1 as Tier 1 and WAN 2 as Tier 2 with failover mode in "Member Down" setting
Default gateway is set to the gateway group
There are no policy routes that are set to use a specific gateway
However I am seeing a bunch of traffic on WAN2 even when WAN 1 is up.
Expected behaviour would be no traffic across WAN2 unless WAN1 goes down.
WAN2 is a metered connection, and I don't want to be charged for usage when it should not be used.
What am I doing wrong?
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@skenigma Do you have "Kill all states for lower priority-gateways" configured in Gateway Monitoring?
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@marcg
I do have "Kill all states for lower priority-gateways"
The problem is not the failing back to the primary, it is while the primary is still up.
As soon as I connect the secondary it starts passing traffic in a load balancing mode instead of sitting idle waiting for the primary to fail (expected).
Hope these help
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I just reconnect the backup wan, and the state table exploded,
I see the route table still shows the secondary as a default route.
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@skenigma
Is the monitoring enabled for the primary gateway?Check Status > Gatewayx. Are both WAN gateways shown up as online (monitored)?
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@skenigma check your DM/chat
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Looks like I may have found my issues.
- I had setup a policy route for testing the connection. I had also deleted that route before opening this request here so I had discarded it. But I think because my computer that was used for the test kept re-establishing sessions, the state table kept re-adding the states.
I have since killed all states after bringing the secondary connection back online (I kept it unplugged unless testing as I didn't want to kill my metered connection) and rebooted the computer that was used in testing. now the only states I am seeing on the secondary are the expected ones for gateway monitoring.
Thank you @marcg and @viragomann for your assistance.
