Quick question, I have one active WAN currently and wanted to configure another WAN interface so I can simply plug them into the new fiber modem. Will configuring the second WAN interface disconnect my remote VPN session while doing this? I assume if I can maintain my remote connection I will have the chance to simply change the default Gateway and this will then move them onto the new fiber connection.
Device: Netgear 6100 - Pfsense+ 22.05
I would think you will lose connection if you change them to the new WAN connection as their primary gateway.
You might be able to keep the connection alive if you explicitly set your configuration to only go in and out of the existing connection for OpenVPN. But I personally wouldn’t chance it.
I think my main concern first is just applying the 2nd WAN settings before changing them over. Once the default is set I will simply change my VPN IP address to get reconnected, pretty sure that’s all I have to do once they re on the new fiber.
Adding another interface will cause the system to pause a bit when activating it but should not drop the VPN.
Being 2 years behind is a bigger concern…
Thanks Tom, yeah I’ve been worried for quite awhile and not having anyone on the other end to help me out has been been reluctance. But after seeing your boot environment video I think I can schedule a time now to attempt an update and roll back hopefully if it goes bad.
So my attempt didn’t go well. There is something just not right with the original WAN port. I configured with the new gateway and IP and got 100% Loss but something else has to be going on. Originally, WAN1 was my ISP connection, about a year in oneday it stopped working, under quite a bit of pressure to get back online I could not figure out what happened so configured WAN 2 and resumed the connection. Well today it obviously bit my in the butt, configuring WAN again with the new ISP settings and no work, in fact as before changing it from DHCP now cancels and OpenVPN connections. Obviously the calls started coming saying they can no longer connect. So I had to get a staff person to reconnect me because my VPN also didn’t work so I could put WAN 1 back to DHCP and then our VPN staff reconnected. Not having a stable ability to remote connect in case of issues just takes the wind out of my sails.
I’m so stupid, when I made the changes to get the WAN 2 online when WAN failed, I still have my Endpoint interface set to WAN in OpenVPN servers , ffs. So at least that should fix one piece of the puzzle.