Setting up second wan connection.

Hi Bob, I am not having much success here.  The Web Filtering was a surprise as I had no idea it had been set.  I wonder if it came as a result of my setting something else.  

Can I leave Web Filtering off while I try and sort out my second WAN connection?

I tried this, as I said earlier, but even with Web Filtering turned off I still had no internet or email access as soon as I turned on the multipath rules and uplink balancing.  What next I ask?  

With regard to Philipp's advice and your related help I note that if I access the UTM as root it negates any support available from Sophos.  Do I really have to go in using SSH. Surely it shouldn't be necessary for what I am trying to achieve?

Yes, it's not advised for people to start mucking around with things at the command line unless it's something known to be acceptable.  Sophos UTM: How to change the outgoing interface for Web Filtering gives more instruction than I did, but it clearly indicates that the command I give above is acceptable.

How about a picture of your Multipath rules?

Cheers - Bob

Hi Bob,

If I try and set the GW on the second interface it automatically turns on the Uplink Balancing which calls a login popup and stops my WAN connection so I have not included the default GW on the AAISP interface.

On the multipath rules there is only the one rule.

I have set an arbitrary IP subnet for the AAISP interface.  I do not have the IP address of the router but can get it in the morning.

I am having trouble inserting the file so see if it works:-

file:///home/alastair/Pictures/Pictures.tar.gz

For reasons I don't understand I cannot insert my zipped screenshots this time.  I get a message saying the file or url is not allowed to be inserted!4667.Pictures.tar.gz

But this seemed to work.

Sorry, Alastair, but I don't have a tool that lets me see those pics.  How about just jpegs or pngs?

Cheers - Bob

Hi Bob,

Ok I think my file was damaged.  Try this.

Hello Alastair,

what makes me wonder here is your remark "it automatically turns on the Uplink Balancing which calls a login popup and stops my WAN connection". What do you mean by "login popup"?
And, of course, the second GW forces uplink balancing to be enabled, that's by design.

@Bob: I think we need to fix this "login popup" thing before we ca go any further here...

Thanks, Alastair, that helps.  I don't think this will work if the AAISP interface doesn't have a default gateway.

Agreed, Philipp, that confused me, too...

Cheers - Bob

Hi Bob & Philipp,

Sorry for the long pause.  We have guest occupying the room and I have to wait until he leaves and I can access the AAISP router.  Hope will get there this evening and check out the AAISP connection and router settings.  I thought AAISP could access from their end but couldn't.  More fun later!!!

OK, I have checked out my other broadband connection with AAISP.  The connection is up and working.  The router lan port is configured as a normal access port with DHCP and default GW and I can connect to it with laptop and browse.  All OK so far.

On the UTM I have set up a dedicated access port, port 1 on its own subnet with unique IP/25 addresses and it is connected to the AAISP lan port. 

The problem is when I try and set the default GW for port 1 on the UTM, things go wrong.  As soon as I do this I get the warning that uplink balancing is required and is enabled.  I then get a link error on the AAISP.  

If I try and cinnect to a website using a Firefox browser I then get an Warning:Potetntial Security Risk from Firefox with the message.  See screenshot and note the Network management prompt in the corner.  Unfortunately this also took me off line so I have to back out to be able to send this which may be why the screenshot appeared above!!!

Grateful for what to try next.