IP Changes SLOWLY

L33T

I am having a strange situation where when I use IP address sites, my IP changes very slowly (on the order of minutes up to maybe 5 minutes, 10 minutes?).. The time is indefinite.

However, the IP does change eventually.

It does seem though that the router favors WAN instead of OPT1.

Thanks for the help…

Facts:

WAN and OPT1 are Motorola Cable Modems at substantially different bandwidths (~15Mbps WAN, ~79 Mbps OPT1). They use the same ISP, and have the default http://192.168.100.1 access page (so only 1 modem is accessible at a time); despite this, they via DHCP get different gateways.

WAN Gateway: 69.X.Y.1
OPT1 Gateway: 68.X.Y.1

Under STATUS->INTERFACE, both interfaces are UP/UP:
WAN: 6671937/7140771 (1.31 GB/237.57 MB)
OPT1: 4708516/6987198 (415.16 MB/530.92 MB)
No dropped or collisions, up or down
Under STATUS->LOAD BALANCING, both interfaces are UP
WAN: Online Delay: 10.316ms, Loss: 0.0%
OPT1: Online Delay: 10.842ms, Loss: 0.0%

We implement 3 cases:
a- load-balancing
b- WAN fails; goto OPT1
c- OPT1 fails; goto WAN

The polling is done using the GATEWAY IPs of the modems they receive via DHCP.

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What I Have Already Tried

I've made sure under FIREWALL->RULES->LAN (tab), we have:

(There is a "special case HTTPS" that comes first….)

Proto Source Port Destination Port Gateway Schedule Description

LAN net * * * WanBalanceOpt Load Balancing (EXEC LAST)

Under FIREWALL->NAT->OUTBOUND, we have:

SELECTED: Manual Outbound NAT Rule Generation

We created a rule for each cable modem:

WAN 10.0.0.0/24 * * * * *
YES
Auto created rule for LAN

OPT1 10.0.0.0/24 * * * * *
YES
Auto created rule for LAN

Under SYSTEM->ADVANCED:

SELECTED: Sticky Connections

L33T

It appears the reason is because I have STICKY CONNECTIONS ENABLED

DO NOT ENABLE STICKY CONNECTIONS FOR MULTIWAN
I thought the "do not use" restriction has been lifted lol.