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Title: Building a Backup Firewall
Post by: spetrillo on December 20, 2020, 12:34:37 AM

All,

I am in the midst of building a secondary firewall. Can I connect the LAN interface of the new firewall to my current network, so I can get the updates?

Thanks,
Steve

Title: Re: Building a Backup Firewall
Post by: mimugmail on December 20, 2020, 07:18:49 AM

Yes, just add another gateway in System : Gateways : Single, point to your primary and set this as upstream.

Title: Re: Building a Backup Firewall
Post by: spetrillo on December 20, 2020, 06:48:57 PM

Do I connect the LAN side or WAN side of the new firewall?

Title: Re: Building a Backup Firewall
Post by: mimugmail on December 20, 2020, 07:12:15 PM

LAN to LAN

Title: Re: Building a Backup Firewall
Post by: spetrillo on December 27, 2020, 09:38:54 PM

Can this connection go through a switch or does it have to be NIC to NIC?

Title: Re: Building a Backup Firewall
Post by: mimugmail on December 28, 2020, 06:22:05 AM

Maybe we are crosstalking. You set up Backup Firewall with different LAN IP and instead of creating a gateway in WAN you create one on interface LAN with IP of primary

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