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23.7 Legacy Series / Second WAN strange behaviour / offline
« on: August 23, 2023, 06:40:28 am »
Hello,
I've set up two WAN connections for failover. They worked well during tests. If one connection failed, the other took over and vice-versa.
But, I noticed something odd during setup. When I connected the second WAN, a regular router with the address 192.168.0.1, I could reach it from my LAN. I changed its IP to 172.20.0.1/24. After this, I couldn't access it from the LAN. However, WAN2 on OPNSense got an IP (172.20.0.100) from the router. Using the OPNSense diagnostics, I could ping 172.20.0.1, but not from the LAN. After turning the interface/gateway (I don't remember what exactly I switched) off and on, everything worked. i could access the WAN2 router from the LAN.
But, a day later, Monit told me WAN2 went offline (it was pinging 8.8.4.4). It hasn’t come back online till now. I’m facing the same issue – I can't access 172.20.0.1 from the LAN, but OPNSense can ping it. And now nothing helps. When I connect to the WAN2 router directly to test, it's working just fine with internet connection being functional there.
Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting? Thanks!
I've set up two WAN connections for failover. They worked well during tests. If one connection failed, the other took over and vice-versa.
But, I noticed something odd during setup. When I connected the second WAN, a regular router with the address 192.168.0.1, I could reach it from my LAN. I changed its IP to 172.20.0.1/24. After this, I couldn't access it from the LAN. However, WAN2 on OPNSense got an IP (172.20.0.100) from the router. Using the OPNSense diagnostics, I could ping 172.20.0.1, but not from the LAN. After turning the interface/gateway (I don't remember what exactly I switched) off and on, everything worked. i could access the WAN2 router from the LAN.
But, a day later, Monit told me WAN2 went offline (it was pinging 8.8.4.4). It hasn’t come back online till now. I’m facing the same issue – I can't access 172.20.0.1 from the LAN, but OPNSense can ping it. And now nothing helps. When I connect to the WAN2 router directly to test, it's working just fine with internet connection being functional there.
Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting? Thanks!