Hello,
I am a newbie here. I have a Balance one core with five WANs connected. I would like to route all (wan) traffic of a Lan client computer thru a specific wan port (modem). I would like to have some guidance on how to do it. What steps should I follow?
Thank you very much for your time.
Hi @trfillos,
You can configure an Outbound policy - see below. I’ve selected the IP address of the device to force to use WAN1. You can select the MAC address if you prefer.
You can also reserve an IP address for a specific device too - see below:-
Hope this helps,
Steve
Thank you very much @Steve.Taylor!
I suppose this WAN is not used exclusively by this LAN client? Am I right? What do I have to do if I want to use it exclusively and all other clients use the rest WANs?
Hi @trfillos,
You are right, this wouldn’t “reserve” that WAN connection for exclusively for that LAN client - other LAN clients would also be able to use that WAN.
You could create a VLAN for all of your other clients, giving them a different IP range - in the example, I’ll use 192.168.2.0/24.
To create the VLAN, from the Network tab, select Network settings and click on the “?” next to IP settings, then click the link called here:-
Click the proceed button, then click the “New VLAN button”. The following is displayed - complete as necessary, but I’m using 192.168.2.1 with a VLAN-ID of 2.
Save the VLAN settings and Apply the Changes.
Change the Port settings:-
In this example, clients connected to LAN 4 would have a 192.168.1.0/24 IP address, where as clients connected to LAN’s 5-8 would have IP addresses in the range 192.168.2.0/24
Note - LAN’s 1-3 are disabled, as I’m using those ports as additional WAN ports.
You can now create a new Outbound Policy rule.
To create the outbound rule for this VLAN, I’d use the following:-
Please note though, in the unlikely event that ALL of the other WAN connections drop, these clients will still use WAN 1 - but only if none of the others are “healthy”.
You may also want to change the previous outbound policy, so that rather than a single device, other “clients” on the same network (192.168.1.0/24) could also use WAN1 - you could use enforced, or you could use Weighted Balance, if you still want those LAN devices to access the internet should the desired WAN become unavailable,
Hope this helps,
Steve
If I add an “outbound policy” rule for enforced connection for a particular IP address to a particular WAN does it only affect “outbound” packets and not necessarily inbound packets to this IP address? I’m asking because it is called “outbound” policy which would imply the “inbound” is different.
Thanks.
