Using 2 ISPs in Active

Hi, John, and welcome to the UTM Community!

There's no option to have the second WAN connection carry traffic when the first maxes out.  I wouldn't run all traffic through the first unless the second requires payment for volume of traffic.  If that's not the case, we probably can suggest some Multipath and QoS rules that would optimize your users' experience.

Cheers - Bob

Hi, John, and welcome to the UTM Community!

There's no option to have the second WAN connection carry traffic when the first maxes out.  I wouldn't run all traffic through the first unless the second requires payment for volume of traffic.  If that's not the case, we probably can suggest some Multipath and QoS rules that would optimize your users' experience.

Cheers - Bob

Thank you for your response! The payment idea is not the case. I have multiple VLAN's going so is it possible for all of them to use both ISP's at the same time? Effectively doubling our ISP capability (even though it's 2 ISPs).......would it work that way?

Or is it better to route traffic from one VLAN to use a specific ISP and the others use another?

You might want to route specific traffic through a specific WAN connection.  If you have a hot DR site, you might want to be sure that it has all of the bandwidth it needs (using QoS) via the faster connection (using a Multipath rule), only falling back to the slower connection if the fast one is down.  Look at the sample Multipath rules to see where/how you might want to split usage between the WAN connections.

Cheers - Bob

You are fighting some fundamentsl issues here.   The rrmote site needs to see one client ip + port for the entire connection.  Even udp traffic often generates repkues to the sender ip and port.   You have to create static rules, as Bob indicated.

There is also an optional feature to link an interface to a web filtering profile, detailed in other posts.   This provides anither way to partition traffic.