Multi WAN question with Policy Based Route

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Richard Sun

• May 23, 2021 00:49

Let's say I create a policy based route for a specific device to go through one of my WAN connections, if that WAN connection that was specified in the policy based route goes down, will it automatically switch to the other active connection?  Right now I've got my two WAN connections set to 50/50 load balancing, but I'm considering created some policy based routes to force traffic into one of them, just worried what happens if that WAN connection goes down.

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  Support

  • May 23, 2021 04:34

  The traffic will always be directed to the specified WAN. So the device will lose connection if the specified WAN is down.

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  Richard Sun

  • May 23, 2021 11:04

  Thank you for your prompt response.  That's what I was afraid of, I'm hoping one day you can add an enhancement that allows us to add to a policy based route, or a some other place that allows us to continue to utilize the fault tolerance, but allow traffic to be sent over a specific connection unless that specific connection is down, etc.

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  Bob Rion

  • April 03, 2022 19:58

  Any update on this enhancement request to setup PBR to one Wan Interface as a priority and if WAN link fails the traffic fails over to another WAN link until the original service is restored ? 

   

   

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