Hello,
I have a Balance 305 (8.5.4) with a BR1 5G (8.5.4) connected to one of the WAN ports. The WAN port has an HTTP Health Check configured to disable itself in case the BR1 does not route traffic any more.
On the BR1, the SIM cards are limited by a SIM pool.
Now when the pool is exceeded, the BR1 switches to “Restricted to management traffic only”.
However, on the Balance 305 the Health Check will not bring the interface down if the URL points to a server in the same /24 network as our InControl instance.
Can somebody explain this behavior? I would expect the BR1 to stop routing any traffic from LAN to WAN, bringing down the port on the 305.
Best regards,
Henry
Hi…
305 it is doing http test againts the lan ip address of the BR1?
so… BR1pro LAN never goes down… Only his wan!
change the wan at 305 to do a dns test… and point it to 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4… don’t point it to the LAN IP address of the BR1pro.
Hi Marcelo,
thank you for your answer.
It seems I did not explain the setup well enough.
The Health check on the 305 does not test against the LAN port of the BR1 but to a server in our datacenter.
What irritates me is the following:
Let’s say our InControl instance is at 203.0.113.69 and I point the Health Check on the 305s WAN port to 203.0.113.5. In this case it will not go down when the BR1 goes into “Management only” mode. It’s like the BR1 passes all traffic to 203.0.113.0/24 even when the SIM pool is exceeded.
I can observe the same behavior on the Firewall as well, the link test does not fail.
In InControl the modem shows “Hit 100% usage. Restricted to routing management traffic only.”
So my question to Peplink is: What is the technical definition of “management traffic”?
@Lai can you help answering this question?
Thank you and best regards,
Henry