Support for configuration LAN case

General
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I need assistance for creating a LAN network made up of X sites (in this case I designed 3 sites). On site 1 I have a server that must communicate with a client located on site 3. Currently the 3 sites are interconnected through hiperlan wifi antennas and I would like to add the possibility of having a 5G cellular for backup lan.

I thought of 2 use cases that I described with 2 drawings:

1 - first case (attachment “Fig1.jpg”) - Using MAX BR1 Pro 5G

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The server is connected directly to the switch, the hyperlan and the router are conneted to the switch. The primary connection is made via hyperlan. When the hyperlan network is not working, the MAX BR1 Pro 5g router, via FusionHub, allows the connection of the LAN with the 3 sites. I think throu lan port priority of the switch.

2 - second case (attachment “Fig2.jpg”): - Using Peplink Balance 310 5g

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The server is connected directly to the switch, only the load balancer is connected to the switch. The hyperlan is connected to wan port of the load balancer.

The primary connection is made via hyperlan. When the hyperlan network is not working, the MAX BR1 Pro 5g router connetch the lan via 5G FusionHub.

Is one of the 2 solutions correct?

Can you help me do this configuration?

Thank you

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how much bandwidth is required/available on the hyperlan links?

because the easiest way is to configure the hyperwan links as WAN links (like your option2) and run the tunnel over that, as well as the backup tunnel over the 5G (or any other connectivity) but that means that the peplink’s must have enough through tunnel bandwidth for the application you are using. The BR1 pro 5g can do 200Mb through the tunnel, the 310 5G can do 500Mb (both with encryption).

You could do the hyperlan link directly from the peplink with lan-side routes & route preferences as well, which would not be in the tunnel, but having it run through a tunnel would make the failover faster and allow you to use SD-WAN technologies like FEC and Smoothing over the hyperlan links if required

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Hi,

What is your Primary Connection for MAX BR1 Pro 5G?

Thanks

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Thanks for your help.

@bryn.loftus the bandwidth required is very little, a couple of 100KB/sec.

@olivasmith The primary connection is HyperLAN.

I redesigned the project adding HA. I hope it can work like this.

However, I need to know if I can purchase the FusionHUB 20 VPN license to pay only once or if I have to pay PrimeCare monthly for each router (there will be around 16 in total).

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Thank you very much

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Ok, so the required bandwidth is very low, so you don’t need to worry about device throughput for that.

your diagram is correct for the physical connectivity (2x wans per device, needing a switch to share the hyperlan with both peplinks in HA) but:

  • You dont need the static routes, the routes for your 192.168.xx.0/24 subnets will automatically propagate over the SDWAN with OSPF

  • Set your link priorities in the speedfusion config to prefer the hyperlan/wan2, and wan1 as less preferred

  • The fusionhub needs to either be licensed for all active clients OR the clients need to be primecare. Bearing in mind that primecare also gets you warranty, support, Incontrol2, WAN-on-vlan (which could be your 2nd wan if you use B310 5G) that makes sense, so you can usea FusionHub SOLO in that instance.

  • If the site where the server is has a public static IP for its main wan link, you don’t need the fusionhub necessarily- the B310 5G with active primecare can have 30 speedfusion peers