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Re: Dual-WAN Router - Traffic Control?
said by Leathal  :I don't think you can do that without having load balance turned on because if you disable load balancing the 2nd WAN becomes a backup WAN which most firewall don't allow normal or otherwise configured traffic to pass-through it because it's in stand by mode. You can do that. That is what I said I looked up in the Linksys RV042 manual.
I decided to go about it a different way that doesn't even require a load balancing router (because I don't want load balancing) by just manipulating my routing tables. |
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2 edits | said by Matt :said by Leathal :I don't think you can do that without having load balance turned on because if you disable load balancing the 2nd WAN becomes a backup WAN which most firewall don't allow normal or otherwise configured traffic to pass-through it because it's in stand by mode. You can do that. That is what I said I looked up in the Linksys RV042 manual. I decided to go about it a different way that doesn't even require a load balancing router (because I don't want load balancing) by just manipulating my routing tables. The straight scoop is that you can accomplish this in the Linksys model. You don't need to go out and buy a Zyxel or Sonicwall like Lethal has said. Load balancing on or not, you can specify the traffic to go out one interface or the other. Heck, when I had a dual WAN connection, I had all the FTP traffic going out the second connection. I disconnected the second connection and about 3 days later was trying to figure out why my FTP sessions weren't working. I literally had to go into the router and turn off that rule.
Ah well.
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1 edit | said by Nightfall :The straight scoop is that you can accomplish this in the Linksys model. You don't need to go out and buy a Zyxel or Sonicwall like Lethal has said. thats true, but nothing looks sexier than a cisco isr sitting on the desk passing packets 
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additionally, with cisco devices you could set up ip-sla to monitor your outgoing interfaces with something like a set of pings. if the pings are dropped by one interface, it will report as down to the router and take all traffic that was exiting the interface that went down and push it out the interface that is still standing.
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