Gateway in 'Pending' status, lost connectivity through gateway

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Hello,

I have two internet connections, WAN as Tier 1 in my routing group, WAN2 as Tier 2, both set as static IPs.
My WAN connection recently went down and I lost internet connectivity, WAN2 didn't come up.

I was logging 'Gateways status could not be determined, considering all as up/active', and my Gateway Status WAN2 showed:

Gateway		Monitor		RTT		Loss		Status 
WANGW		x.x.x.x		53.4ms		0%		Online
WAN2_GW		 <blank>Pending		Pending		Pending

Monitor was blank on WAN2 even though I have a monitor IP configured.</blank> 

Restarting the apinger service brought WAN2 back to an 'online' status.

I am on an Alix board running 2.1p1-RELEASE (i386), built on Tue Nov 12 17:54:26 EST 2013, FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p12.

The p1 means this is a firmware from Netgate.

I'm assuming upgrading to the latest firmware will resolve this?

Apr 24 10:17:52       php: rc.newipsecdns: Gateways status could not be determined, considering all as up/active. (Group: InternetAccess)
Apr 24 10:17:52	php: rc.newipsecdns: MONITOR: GW_WAN is down, removing from routing group InternetAccess
Apr 24 10:17:52	php: rc.newipsecdns: Default gateway down setting WAN2GW as default!
Apr 24 10:17:52	php: rc.newipsecdns: Gateways status could not be determined, considering all as up/active. (Group: InternetAccess)
Apr 24 10:17:52	php: rc.newipsecdns: MONITOR: GW_WAN is down, removing from routing group InternetAccess
Apr 24 10:17:51	php: rc.newipsecdns: Default gateway down setting WAN2GW as default!
Apr 24 10:17:51	php: rc.newipsecdns: Gateways status could not be determined, considering all as up/active. (Group: InternetAccess)
Apr 24 10:17:51	php: rc.newipsecdns: MONITOR: GW_WAN is down, removing from routing group InternetAccess
Apr 24 10:17:51	php: rc.newipsecdns: Default gateway down setting WAN2GW as default!