Best practice deploying peplink upstream of firewall with existing site to site VPNs while adding Stalinks

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Hi,

I have a few clients that have an existing network with a single fibre or FWA connection. However, they now want to add Starlink as a form of load balancing or redundancy. The client would like to keep the Fortinet or Sopohs gateway to handle the layer 2 network for security reasons and keep any site-to-site VPNs they may have.

What is the best way to add the Peplink and a Starlink to this network without disrupting the existing gateway?

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This is what drop in mode was designed for. Using it would be the least impactful to the customer firewall config.

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for the reply. What if the client is getting a /30 subnet from the ISP?

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That’s two hosts. one for the client firewall and the other for the ISP router so you’ll need Shared IP mode where the Peplink shares the ISP router’s IP.

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Thanks, Martin.

I didn’t know about this hidden feature.

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