💡 HA support for Balance 30

[Telford_Forgety]

We would love to see High Availability…available…on the Balance 30! Some small sites really need this hardware feature, and don’t merit the bigger iron that supports it. Provided we have two available GigE ports for connection to switches, one of the four could be used for the VRRP packets.

Thanks for considering!

[mldowling]

Hello @Telford_Forgety,
If you can spare one of the WAN ports on each and a LAN port on each, there is a way to create something close to the HA feature, very similar to what @Steve.Taylor has posted here with the Pepwave MAX Active/Active solution.

Pepwave Max Active / Active

Here is a document to demonstrate how to setup 2 Max devices in an Active / Active pair to combine their total connections. The document shows the step-by-step setup for 2 x BR1’s, with guidance for 2 x HD2’s and 2 x HD4’s. On the LAN side of each device you would either have Access Points or a switch with Access Points connected. The recommendation is that each AP from both devices would have the same SSID’s / Password, with the latest 3.6.0 firmware on the AP’s you can enable the setting to…

Is this something you could do?
Happy to Help,
Marcus