Hi Peplink team and everybody,
I’d like to share with you one problem we’ve met.
I’ve had some setups so far, like below (depicted just 2 sites for clarity) and customers think high really.
My Setup:
- Balances are set to Master and Cisco routers are set to Slave.
- All the time, Balance uses Internet for forwarding traffic and I use Cisco for backup and/or some specific hosts to use.
My requirements:
- High Availability capability (VRRP).
- Policy Based Routing for traffic management/control (Like Outbound Policy for LAN –> WAN traffic)
Problems (I couldn’t solve):
- Due to lack of Policy based routing (PBR) on LAN (Balance not Cisco’s), I cannot manage outgoing traffic wisely.
- I’ve found that Outbound Policy doesn’t work for forwarding LAN traffic other than via S2S VPN Interfaces.
- We cannot set Balance to Slave for It will disable all WANs and go to (hot) standby.
Proposals: (just only one of the following).
- Option to make Slave Balance to continue forwarding traffic (Enable all WANs): So that One can take advandtage of Cisco router to manage traffic.
- PBR features added to Static route on LAN menu: Then Balance can manage traffic well.
- Outbound Policy: Adding feature to be able to route LAN traffic to WAN (in Forwarding mode). So Balance can use MPLS and S2S VPN via the Internet connections wisely.
- (Dynamic routing support (RIPv2 and/or OSPF including Route Redistribution features are enough)) - Low priority.
It’ll be wonderfull if the problem should be solved! .
Regards.