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Set an indipendent second WAN interface

Good morning,

I have two clusters of XGS 2100 in HA (Active-Passive) running with the firmware version 19.5.3 MR-3-Build652. This is my current setup in both of the clusters: 

WAN1 (ISP) > Port2

LAN > PortF1

HA > PortF2 - PortF2

As per object, in one of them, I need to set an indipendent second WAN interface (WAN2) for connecting a MPLS router that will be reachable only from a VLAN. This operation is quite simple and I made it from Network > Add Interface. I set the IP information, the WAN zone and the port.

The desired setup would be:

WAN2 (MPLS with NO Internet access) > Port4

VLAN > Port6

However, after I enable the port and I plug the cable in, that will connect the MPLS router to the Port4 of the firewall, the Load Balancing (that I don't need) starts to work and most ot my users lose the Internet access (WAN1). Even configuring the weights, for each gateway, from the WAN link manager, is not helping at all.

Furthermore, I tried to set my firewalling rules so part of the traffic gets forwarded to the WAN1 (I selected WAN from the Destination zones and Port2 from the Destination networks) and some to the WAN2 (I selected WAN from the Destination zones and Port4 from the Destination networks) but it is not working at all.

Do you have any suggestions or any idea on why this setup is not working? Please let me know if you need further information, I have been vague just to explain the main issue.

As a temporary workaround, I just created a VLAN on the switch, and on the XGS cluster, and connected the MPLS router directly to the tagged switch port. Of course, this is not sustainable and this is not the setup I want.

Thank you and have a nice day!

Best regards.



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  • Just remove the „Gateway“ setting from this uplink. 

    Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

    Philipp Rusch

    New Vision GmbH, Germany
    Sophos Silver-Partner

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  • Hello  ,

    thank you for your answer. What do you mean? Once I setup the WAN interface, I cannot remove the gateway.

  • Hello Leonardo,

    as per your explanation I think you do not want a second "WAN" interface, because you said this is NOT used as an access to the internet.

    I assume you assigned that interface to the "WAN" zone, which implies you have to assign a gateway and this interface will be added as a second uplink in "WAN-manager".

    So just don't assign it to the "WAN" zone, if you do not intend to use it as a WAN-interface!

    You could define a new zone, let's call it "MPLS" and this doesn't become part of the WAN-uplink manager group.

    To reach other networks over this "MPLS"-interface you would need to define static routes, though.

    Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

    Philipp Rusch

    New Vision GmbH, Germany
    Sophos Silver-Partner

    If a post solves your question please use the 'Verify Answer' button.

  • Good morning  ,

    thank you for your answer and sorry for my late reply.

    Before opening this thread I already tried what you suggested but probably there is something I did not set correctly and it did not worked.

    There is something I forgot to mention: our network devices are Ubiquiti and VLANs are managed through the Unifi Dream Machine Pro and "assigned" to the ports of the switches.

    Yesterday I tried the following setup and it did not work the same:

    VLAN 210 (Third-party Gateway), created on the UDMP's network side, tagged on ports 37 to 48 of the switch. The idea is to let the FW manage the VLAN with a DHCP server assigned to the VLAN interface.

    WAN2 (MPLS with NO Internet access) > Port4 - I connected the MPLS router to this interface in the MPLS zone. IP of the interface: 10.10.200.2 (.1 is the router)

    VLAN > Port6 - I connected the port 37 of the switch in the MPLS zone. IP of the interface: 10.10.210.1

    The VLAN on Port6 is literally a VLAN interface that I assigned to the Port6 (Port6.210) with a DHCP server binded. Then, I simply created a firewalling rule that was redirecting the traffic from Port6 to Port4 and the other way around. In this way, I think that static routes are not necessary. 

    Is there something I am missing or that I made wrong on this setup?

    Thank you for your precious support and have a nice day!

    Best regards,

    Leonardo

  • Hello Leonardo,

    did you define a gateway at WAN2?

    Please post a screenshot of your edit window of that interface.

    Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

    Philipp Rusch

    New Vision GmbH, Germany
    Sophos Silver-Partner

    If a post solves your question please use the 'Verify Answer' button.

  • Hello  ,

    I improperly called it WAN2 but, as you also suggested, I did not configured the port in the WAN zone. I created a LAN zone called MPLS and I assigned it to the Port4. Then, I created a LAN zone called VLAN and I assigned to the Port6. Then, I created a gateway binded to the Port4.

    Port 4:

    Gateway binded to the Port4:

    Port 6 and Port6.210:

    The VLAN ID 210 interface is needed to the UDMP in which I tagged the VLAN 210.

    The firewalling rule simply goes from the VLAN to the MPLS. Source and Destination are Network groups and not ports. I can see that the traffic goes out from Port6 but does not reach in any way the Port4 and back.

    Am I missing something?

  • Hello Leonardo,

    can you show us the definition of "STATIC_Port4_GW" ?

    Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

    Philipp Rusch

    New Vision GmbH, Germany
    Sophos Silver-Partner

    If a post solves your question please use the 'Verify Answer' button.

  • Hello  ,

    sure, here you are!

    Thank you.

  • Hello Leonardo,

    that does not define a route through a gateway, as you might have thought. This is only a definition for a monitoring condition for uplinks.

    What you want is a couple of static routes through that MPLS Gateway at 10.10.200.1 poiting to the other (remote) networks behind it.

    You will need to specify the other networks in one route for each network.

    Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

    Philipp Rusch

    New Vision GmbH, Germany
    Sophos Silver-Partner

    If a post solves your question please use the 'Verify Answer' button.

  • Good morning  ,

    yesterday I tried to create two unicast static routes:

    From VLAN to MPLS:

    and from MPLS to VLAN:

    Anyway, routing is not working. Probably I am doing something wrong but I cannot find out what.

    Thank you!