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Title: Failover WAN and wanting to access both modem UIs when primary gateway is active
Post by: plm on September 03, 2025, 05:33:14 AM
I've seen a number of examples of how to route traffic to a cable modem web UI when it's on a different subnet than the DHCP network it is providing, and that works fine for me.

The troube is, I have the same type of setup on my 5G failover modem, which I don't want to pass traffic across unless the cable modem circuit is down, and I'm struggling to find the right way to configure each of the interfaces so I can route traffic to the respective web UIs, but have the internet connection properly identified as up or down, and have the secondary link only pass any traffic in a failver scenario.

Does anyone have any posts, documentation, or other pointers I can look at for how to most effectively set this up?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Failover WAN and wanting to access both modem UIs when primary gateway is active
Post by: t84a on September 03, 2025, 06:34:32 PM
I followed this and mine works perfectly.

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/multiwan.html
Title: Re: Failover WAN and wanting to access both modem UIs when primary gateway is active
Post by: plm on September 04, 2025, 04:23:28 AM
Thanks. I've got the failover working just fine though, which is what this guide covers.

What's not working is when gateway 1 is active I can't get to the web UI on gateway 2, and vice versa. If I'm on the failover gateway I'd like to be able to look at the web UI for gateway 1 to see what's up with the link, but I'm stuck on being able to see the web UI on gateway 2 only.

I know there'll be a way to do this. I just can't figure out what the neatest way of doing it is.