Good day, guys,
Was wondering if someone could lend a hand here as to the best way to setup.
We work in the film industry; We have a 2x 580’s (1 failover) in our rack. (let’s call it Office1)
We then have a Balance 20 on each of our carts (let’s call it Cart1) that VPN back to the 580’s Using a Cellular modem on Wan1
Ok here is what it gets tricky, We have a daughter cart that also has a balance 20 (let’s call it daughter1) it also has a Cellular modem on Wan1
These work as expected independently, My question is what’s the best way of bringing them together on a case by case basis. Sometimes it’s needed, and sometimes it’s not.
What we have tried:
We have gone from Cart1 Lan port ethernet to daughter1 Wan2 port. However, the results vary depending on what booted up first. The idea here is not to use internet for local data traffic, and we can see that data flows back to the office then come back if things are not booted a certain way.
This is one of those things; you have to keep it simple stupid for on set.
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Some other specific. Both balance 20’s have there own VPN back to the office. One would be 192.168.10.1 whereas the other would be 192.168.71.1
Again mission here is when we connect an ethernet cable between both balance 20’s that anything local would transfer local and not need the cellular connection.
We have also picked up a Pepwave in hopes to migrate to them. eliminating the need for balance 20s and modem.
Why do you want to bring them together? You say the idea is not to use them for local data traffic - so I assume this is all about getting traffic back over PepVPN to your B580 location?
The Balance 20 doesn’t support SPeedFusion so you can’t bond the traffic from one Balance 20 using two internet connections (the second from another B20 on its WAN). You can have hot failover though I think on the B20 - is that what you’re after?
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Hello @thfraley,
From what we read you are physically connection both of the Balance 20 units together via there LAN Ports, is this correct. You have occasions where you want to connect the two field systems together so that you can share large files betewwn them directly rather than via the WAN network.
I see two options here:
Option #1
The Balance 20 has two WAN ports, so connecting the LAN to the 2nd WAN from each could achieve some of what you are attempting to do, though you need to have some good networking rules setup on the units.
Option #2
Using the 2nd WAN Ports, assign a static IP to both and create a PepVPN connection directly across those two WANs, add in some smart routing priority rules and you should be able to use that.
@MartinLangmaid is based in UK, myself in Australia and there are Peplink Partners all around the world, this may be something that needs some speciality configuration (& a 2nd network cable depending on what option you go with), though what you are asking for makes sense to us and is achievable.
Happy to Help,
Marcus 
