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General Discussion / WAN Interface, Direct traffic not happening
« on: July 04, 2022, 06:57:12 pm »
Hi!
We have 2 routers in the same /27 public subnet. They deal with different things: public services / workplace internet access.
Both have static IP addresses in the same subnet.
For some reason our opnsense router will not just sent traffic to the other one directly, but instead is routed across 3 hops. And the hops are not even the default gateway of the interface.
I have absolutely no idea what is going on.
Static IP, netmask and default gateway are all OK setup.
The generated routes seem also to be perfect: there is a route for the public network/27 with link#2 as gateway with is the WAN ethernet.
the upstream link is fiber of significant lower rate.
I was wondering if there may be some automatic gateway protocol (BGP?) or something, tweaking my setup without my understanding.
Any idea about what could be going on?
We have 2 routers in the same /27 public subnet. They deal with different things: public services / workplace internet access.
Both have static IP addresses in the same subnet.
For some reason our opnsense router will not just sent traffic to the other one directly, but instead is routed across 3 hops. And the hops are not even the default gateway of the interface.
I have absolutely no idea what is going on.
Static IP, netmask and default gateway are all OK setup.
The generated routes seem also to be perfect: there is a route for the public network/27 with link#2 as gateway with is the WAN ethernet.
the upstream link is fiber of significant lower rate.
I was wondering if there may be some automatic gateway protocol (BGP?) or something, tweaking my setup without my understanding.
Any idea about what could be going on?