Products Firewalla Gold SE Firewalla Gold Pro Firewalla Gold Plus Firewalla Purple Firewalla Purple SE Firewalla Wi-Fi SD Product Comparison Product Reviews

Dual WAN question

Follow
Avatar
Michael Bierman

My Gold is finally on the way! I'm preparing for the arrival and have a question about Dual WAN. In my old ASUS router the Dual WAN has options for ping or DNS lookups to detect when to do failover or failback. From what I can see in the tutorials, Firewalla doesn't have any configurations for that. So, I'm curious how it works and how long it takes to go from one ISP to the other? As an aside, I hope it is better than the ASUS which seems to do a very bad job with this feature. 

1

Comments

13 comments

Sort by Date Votes
  • Avatar
    Firewalla

    Multi-WAN is going through testing, it is very closed to be in beta stage.  If you are on beta (for the Gold) (tap on gears->advanced->beta->join box beta), you should get a notification when it is out. 

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Support

    Multi-WAN is currently under development. You will be able to configure ping test target for each WAN. The backend actually also supports configuring the DNS lookup target but it may be not configurable in the app in the next release. The connectivity check will use ping and DNS lookup to determine if a WAN connection is normal. The failover should happen within one minute after the WAN connectivity is down. All related features, e.g., port forwarding, VPN server will automatically switch over. You will also be able to configure whether to switch back to the primary WAN if it is back to normal.

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Michael Bierman
    • Edited

    Thank you! I'm wondering is 1 minute kind of the industry standard? With distance learning and work from home, being down for a minute is a lot. With my ASUS it takes almost a minute to switch over and then the second ISP goes from "cold" connection status to on. So in all it can take 2 minutes to get fully functional. That is not super useful since the zoom or whatever has already disconnected. I am new to multi-WAN but I was hoping for a smoother cutover. 

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Support

    Thanks for the feedback. From our current tests, WAN switch over should be complete within 1 minute. However, since it is the initial version of multi-WAN implementation on Firewalla Gold, there will be surely improvements and tunings in the upcoming releases. We will first make sure it works properly and then try to make to smoother. I can imagine it's not trivial to make cutover smooth and accurate. The last ten miles are always the hardest but we will keep improving :)

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Michael Bierman

    Understood.

    It might be nice to have the option of a notification when it is switching to secondary WAN and back. At least that way I'd know that I don't have to go into "debug" mode to save my network... in a minute things should correct themselves. 

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    oscar valle

    Thanks for the update, will it support LACP-IEEE 802.3ad?

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Rupert Chandler

    This is the feature I'm waiting for before integrating the Gold into my system fully.

    Will feature act as failover or aggregator or both?

    Would be fantastic to get aggregation not just simple failover.

    Rup

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Firewalla

    It will do both primary standby mode, and also load balancer, which you can pick the percentage of the load.

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Rupert Chandler

    Hiya,

    How's this progressing?

    Rup

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Firewalla

    Any day now ... should be in early access mode soon ...  sorry for the wait

    releasing code is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you will get :)

    1
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    BatraD

    hello, Comcast just upgraded our connection from 1 Gb to 1.2 GB. unfortunately i cant use the extra bandwidth for now

    Any ETA when we can test the feature ? my modem has both a 2.5G port as well as supports LACP

    https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/modem-routers/cax80

    am on Gold/Beta

    thanks

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Firewalla

    You can't do that with multi WAN's for sure, multi WAN is to load balance between 2 or more (we support 2 for now 1.971) service providers.  Link bonding is definitely possible with the Firewalla, but we are unlikely to do anything until a small portion of the customer base is on > 1.5Gbit.   

    0
    Comment actions Permalink
  • Avatar
    Chuck

    Please if you can add function Dual WAN same Subnet. I have up to 4 static IP Addresses same Subnet. I have modem that has 4 1G ports and would like to run 2 of those as incoming wans but current firewall Gold will not allow 2 connects coming in from same provider.

    0
    Comment actions Permalink

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

New post