Hi,
I’m setting up a TL-MR6400 router with a SIM card as a failover on PFSense, with a “pay what you use” 4G SIMcard in it.
Here is the question :
When setting up a PPPOE WAN in PFSense you can select “dail on demand”, so it only establishes this WAN connection when it’s actually needed (when it actually fails over essentially).
The problem is, that the TL-MR6400 is not PPPOE, it can only be set to “bridged” (because we don’t want double NAT, of course), so it transparently offers the WAN IP of the cable ISP as a DHCP IP to the PFSense port …
… and this type of WAN (DHCP) doesn’t seem to have this “dail on demand” function, or somethins similar.
Is there a way to do this ?
maybe with a firewall rule, or some other option ?
The reason is : when the main WAN is up (= no failover), it doesn’t need to make any connection to the failover WAN, because it’s just wasting data (and money because it’s “pay what you use”) for nothing (just for checking “are you still there, are you ok ?”, which it does constantly, as I can see in the traffic graphs …
It should only establish the second (failover) WAN connection when it’s actually needed (on actual failover).
Is there a way to basically shut it up, unless it’s actually needed for failover ?
I am not really sure as I have no clients using PPOE to do any testing with, If no one else here has an answer this question might have to be asked over in the pfsense forums.
Sorry, I misread that. When setting up a WAN to be a fail over you set the tiers so there is a priority to the WAN you want to be primary. So no data should go out over the secondary unless the primary fails.
I have configured PFSense for “Failover” from Telenet ISP to Scarlet ISP.
but why is there still traffic on Scarlet ISP when Telenet ISP is perfectly online ?
look :
According to you (and to all common sense) it should be zero when there is no “fail-over” going on …
I dumped the SIM modem and got a DSL modem instead to do the failover …
the SIM account was too expensive (DSL much cheaper and unlimited, so not having to monitor the traffic anymore) …