Multi WAN and Routing

Multi-WAN and routing

All under Network.

Gateways

A gateway is the next hop of a WAN (from DHCP, or a fixed address). Each is monitored: the box pings a monitor IP (for example 1.1.1.1) every few seconds and marks the gateway down above a loss or latency limit you set. The dashboard and Network → Gateways show status, latency and loss; notifications can tell you on wan_down / wan_up.

Gateway groups: failover and load balancing

A group lists gateways with a tier and a weight:

• Tier 1 is used first; tier 2 only when every tier-1 gateway is down (failover).
• Within a tier, connections are spread by weight (load balancing): weight 3 and 1 send about 75% / 25%.

Policy routing

Set a policy's gateway to a gateway, a group or a VPN provider: the traffic that policy accepts leaves that way. Example: the TV VLAN through the cable WAN, everything else through the fibre WAN with the cable WAN as failover.

Static routes

Network → Static Routes: a destination subnet via a gateway, for networks behind another router (a lab router, a site-to-site link).