Dual WAN, routes and load balancing
Hi.
I need some assurance from you guyes with my setup.
I am using 2x Starlink Maritime's connected to a Firewalla Gold Pro.
I set them up with load balancing to start.
Then i set up routes, one starlink for admin, and one starlink for crew.
I set it up with routes to seperate the networks and bandwith usage from eachother. I dont want the crew to use up the admins bandwith and limited data etc.
I changed the route on Admins network to prefered, and crews to static.
BUT: I want you guyes to assure me this is correct, and that with the load balancing setup and the routes i set up, if admins starlink goes down, it will use crews starlink, but not the other way around.
I am probably not explaining myself well. But I hope someone understands what I am trying to do.
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Static means the route will be there and it will never fail over. So if you want the crew LAN to always point to Starlink2, and when Starlink2 dies, the crew LAN will be out of internet, then you are okay.
Preferred means, all traffic from your admin LAN will go to the Starlink1 ISP. And if Starlink1 disconnects, your traffic will go to Starlink2 and mixed with the Crew LAN
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Yes.
Static routes always follow the route. If that WAN goes down, then there is no connection allowed to the other WAN.
With a preferred route the selected WAN will be used if is available, but if not the other WAN will be used.You can set a static or prefered routes with ether load balancing or failover.
You can test traffic bysetting a rule say, to domain "ipinfo.io" and then check which IP you get. Then you can simulate the WAN going down by unplugging it and see what happens.
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