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    Dual WAN, disable 1 WAN … different from pulling wire?!

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      khb
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      Port 1 connected to comcast
      Port 3 connected to starlink
      Port 2 LAN

      Pull the Comcast wire, failover as expected ... traffic moves on wan2 without a hiccup.

      Use the GUI to disable WAN1/Port1 and dig, nslookup, ping all fail beyond disabling the interface what needs to be done to sw instigate failover?

      Any well known typical best traffic rules for getting the most of the somewhat mismatched performance curves of cable vs. starlink?

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        khb @khb
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        Having gone ahead and created an explicit gateway group, with both WAN's Tier 1 .. and adjusting the LAN firewall rules to use that gateway group, enable/disable now works to simulate a wire pull for failover.

        I'll also note that performance is now very good, at peak 2x our previous best observed peaks (up+down)

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