Got a 2nd WAN - how to migrate to uplink balancing without user interaction

Hallo Stephan,

On the 'Settings' tab of SSL VPN, you can specify the "Any" network object as the 'Interface address'.  There are specialized DNS services that offer a not-free service as you ask.  Just adding a second A record for the FQDN will probably be good enough for this purpose, and that should be free.

Cheers - Bob
PS Moving this thread to the VPN forum.

Hi,

thank you for your answer.

Is there no interruption for any service if i activate Uplink balancing? Or do i want to do this off hours?

Best regards

Stephan 

The default balancing is "by Connection," so established connections should not be interrupted, Stephan.

Cheers - Bob

Hi,

i now activated uplink balancing.

But back to my question of remote ssl. I cannot take the "uplink interfaces" group to the listening interface address

So can i only choose one ssl vpn listening interface?

That's why I said that you must use the "Any" network object, Stephan - otherwise, it must be a single "(Address)" object.

Cheers - Bob

Sorry. I forgot. 

But will it break the User Portal as it listens on the same 443 port? 

Two totally different connections, Stephan, and the UTM knows how to differentiate.

Cheers - Bob

I will try the configuration. But there are several "ideas" here where it conflicts with NAT and/or WAF. So this is another thing i want to do out of office hours.

https://ideas.sophos.com/forums/17359-sg-utm/search?filter=hot&oauth_consumer_key=DRfxHKLCir1RCZbSH0fo5g&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&page=2&query=SSL+VPN+Remote+uplink+balancing

Take a look at #2 in Rulz, Stephan.  Also see Doug Foster's READ ME FIRST: UTM Architecture.

Cheers - Bob

Take a look at #2 in Rulz, Stephan.  Also see Doug Foster's READ ME FIRST: UTM Architecture.

Cheers - Bob

Hi Bob,

i just got the time to test it:

And it is not working. I have to use a service that acts as load balancer to achieve a smooth migration. But there is no automatic failover if one internet connection does not work.

Best regards

Stephan

If "OWA" is on its own dedicated IP different from how your User Portal and SSL VPN are reached, I would try temporarily disabling "OWA" to change to "Any" here.  Then re-enable "OWA" - did that work?

Cheers - Bob

Hi Bob,

i have around ~6 webservices with different IPs (additional ips) on one of my uplink interfaces. So if i deactive OWA the next one will come up.

I think it is just by design that you cannot select "any" if you have webservers that use 443 over web application firewall out there.

So this ssl feature is not possible to fail over/migrate easily

When I configure a client initially, I change the protocol to UDP to avoid future conflicts and to accelerate the tunnel.  If you were to do that now, you would need to change line 4 in all users' config files to proto udp from proto tcp.  Either that or send each an update which you can download from the 'Users' tab of 'Users & Groups'.

I agree that the easiest would be to use the DNS failover service for now.

Cheers - Bob

Hey Bob,

thanks for your answer.

Do you know a good one? 

Or am i searching for load balancing? 

I would think it works like this: I set up dns failover with ip 1.1.1.1 and specify my old and new ssl endpoint there.

Then i change the DNS entry to 1.1.1.1. The dns failover will then decided where to route the traffic (port 443 reachable on this ip)

I'm not familiar with DNS failover services in Germany, so you might want to Google for them from there.  A load balancing service would also work if that would be beneficial when both WAN connections are available.

Cheers - Bob