Active-Active Redundancy using Peplink Balance 580X

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Hello

I have been trying to see if there is HA redundancy (active-active) that can be achieved using Peplink Balance 580X in the setup.

We already have a couple of core redundant switches and the Peplinks will connect up to these core switches.

I have got some links which shows VRRP setup which are active - passive but I am looking at ways to setup this as active - active.

Any help / inputs will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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The only way you can support HA Active active in Peplink’s world is by using a routing protocol.

We do this at Venn with our global WARP infrastructure delivering public IP subnets to the LAN of Peplink devices in an active / active setup.

In this video we show how we’re doing that with a Juniper firewall as the client that recieves the public IPs. Venn WARP - HA Demo

The beauty of this is that it can be mismatched routers (in this case a B One 5G and a BR2 Pro).

Perfect if you happen to have a pair of B580X in a rack, or a pair of BR2 Pro’s in a remotely driven taxi for hardware resilience - especially since you can combine the bandwidth of all the active WAN links on both devices at the same time…

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Thanks a lot for this. let me go through the details, will try this!

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An additional question - did you have a /29 Public IP address space between the two Peplinks and the Juniper?

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So in that demo only the juniper has the public IP’s, the connections to the 2 peplinks are /30’s rfc1918 addresses. The peplinks each advertise a default route to the juniper and the juniper advertises the public prefix to both of the peplinks, which then advertise back to the fusionhub which hosts the bigger public prefix.
You designate the primary peplink by using as-prepend on the secondary paths and use higher costs on the speedfusion tunnels.

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