SFC Wan Smoothing with drop-in mode possible?

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Hi all,
I have done quite a bit of research on this and haven’t found a definitive answer.

I want to use drop-in mode to put a B20x between an Ubiquity UDM router and my 2 WAN connections (Starlink + DSL) in order to get WAN smoothing via SFC for my MS Teams traffic.

Is this possible - will WAN smoothing work in drop-in mode? That is not clear in any of the information I have found.

In the comments for this particular video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXIqXR6Ie2c I see the following statement: " does not require any configuration of your existing network, unless using SpeedFusion." but can find no further information on what that further configuration is?

Thank you!

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It depends on what you want to achieve?
Outbound wan smoothing or inbound wan smoothing or both?
For outbound
Yes you can use DIM and then also add that same wan to a wan smoothing tunnel.

For inbound:
You have to “move” the public ip outside of the local network to achieve wan smoothing.

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Jonathan,
Thank you for the response.
I believe I am looking to do outbound wan smoothing only.
I simply want to have a wan smoothing tunnel (starlink +dsl)that handles my Microsoft teams meetings , and my AT&T calls over wifi to improve the call quality.

I already have the outbound policies set up from when I was just running the b20x as my main router , but now I have the ubiquity network set up and want to add the b20x back in to do the SFC functions.

So if I understand your response , I would just set up DIM with one of the wan connections and then add in the other wan connection to do the smoothing ?

Will it matter what vlan the clients are in on the ubiquity network ? Or will it just smooth the teams traffic regardless of where it comes from on the ubiquity side ?

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Where is the static ip, on the dsl?
What is the static ip needed for?
DIM only works with a manual static ip, not a dhcp received static ip.
You could manually type if , it you always receive the same static ip.
Some people confuse public ip(changes but publicly accessible) with static public ip(never changing and publicly accessible)

Yes that is correct.

No it won’t.

You would need to setup an outbound rule on the peplink to route all traffic outbound from the static ip to the SFC tunnel. The peplink would see all the traffic as coming from the public ip.