how to add another gateway address to use for WAN ip

Hi Rob,

you certainly define it like that! As soon as you start to fill in correct values and then tick "IPv4 Default GW" it will will ask you if this intended and then activate "Uplink Balancing" and "MultiPath Rules" for those interfaces. My setup is like this:

Then you have:

If you go to that "tool"-sign you are able to apply a metric:

Additionally, you don't need to use multipath rules, but I encourage you to try this out.

Don't forget to do a MASQ for "uplink interfaces"now that you have two uplinks.

so for the additional wan interface even if i dont want it to be my default gateway i still need to tick the default gateway?

OK , I admit that this label is a bit misleading: with this you define the default GW for THIS INTERFACE.

So with my company, for example, it's WAN1 going to ISP "MK" and WAN2 going to ISP "Unitymedia".

Since both ISP have their own infrastructure, the IP network of interface WAN1 has a (default) gateway from the MK IP-nets

and WAN2 has a (default) gateway from the Unitymedia IP nets.

Default GW  in this case means "where to send the packet, if no other network I know directly matches?"

OK , I admit that this label is a bit misleading: with this you define the default GW for THIS INTERFACE.

So with my company, for example, it's WAN1 going to ISP "MK" and WAN2 going to ISP "Unitymedia".

Since both ISP have their own infrastructure, the IP network of interface WAN1 has a (default) gateway from the MK IP-nets

and WAN2 has a (default) gateway from the Unitymedia IP nets.

Default GW  in this case means "where to send the packet, if no other network I know directly matches?"

so when I make the other wan2 will all my traffic automatically go out of wan2 instead of wan1, as I don't want this to happen at all

for this not to happen do I need to do the "uplink balancing"

No, that will not happen, if you use Multipath rules. What is your concern? I don‘t understand yor reluctance.

You could even define the second interface as a „standby“ interface, if that is what you want.

thanks jprusch, now i understand you, i might aswell have the wan2 as a standby just incase my default wan1 falls over

and i persume after that in "network protection > NAT > masquesrading" i make every network go out either using wan1 or wan2?

You are welcome.

Yes, that's why you can use an object "uplink interfaces" in masquerading, this includes both WAN1 and WAN2.

Or, in other words, "uplimk interfaces" are all links with an assigned "Default GW", this could be more than two.

thanks jprusch!!!!!!!!!!

im guessing for the weight number, the lower number you give it the higher priority it has?

Hello,

NO, that's just a metric number, example:

you have a cable modem with 400 MBit and another provider with 100 Mbit, so the first is a "100" and the second a "25", hence it has only one quarter of the bandwidth for the calculation. Hope this clarifies a bit.

ok so its bandwith priority then and not interface priority, i thought it was interface priority...my bad

my problem is when i tick the box "default gateway" for WAN 2  and when i click masquerading i can see its all changed to "uplink interfaces" which is good

but when i click on "uplink balancing" i want to get rid of WAN2 from the active and stanby boxes, but when i get rid of WAN 2 from both, when i then go back on "interfaces" its "unticked" the "default gateway" for WAN 2

what im trying to say is even if you specify in masquerading, i want this subnet to go out WAN2, it totally disregards this and goes by the "uplink balancing" rules and NOT the "masquerading"rules

If using more than one uplink, you have to use "multipath rules"  for this purpose. There you can completely "unbalance" your setup to your personal needs.