Re: Secondary WAN

Oops, can anyone remove my previous message with contact details etc from
the archive?


Best,
James

On 13 April 2016 at 14:27, James Bewley <[email protected]> wrote:

> HI Brad,
>
> pfSense seems to come up as 'the' open source firewall solution.  I would
> prefer to stick with a Linux based firewall but if I don't need to play
> with the internals then I suppose it doesn't really matter.
>
> I have ordered another alix-3 and will put the new WAN on the network as a
> separate IPCop gateway.
>
> Going to look into pfSense though as WAN fall-back might be something we
> need in the future.
>
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
>
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> On 13 April 2016 at 14:18, Brad Morgan <b-morgan-NTXU5EFYMyg4d9/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> IPCop doesn't support a second WAN interface but there are other
>> open-source
>> firewall distributions that do. A bit of googling should find pfSense
>> and/or
>> OPNSense as one alternative.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Bewley [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 4:10 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [IPCop-user] Secondary WAN
>>
>> No one uses IPCop anymore then?
>>
>>
>>
>> James
>>
>> On 12 April 2016 at 13:21, James Bewley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have been using ipcop for a couple of years now and it has been
>> > great for hosting multiple static IP addresses and lots of services.
>> >
>> > My current set-up is pretty basic, one GREEN interface and one RED
>> > interface with aliases for 6 IP addresses.
>> >
>> > We have just had a new line fitted and we need to have both WANs
>> > active during the migration to the new line.  The new WAN operates on
>> > a different subnet to the other and obviously has a different gateway
>> address.
>> >
>> > From the console I wasn't able to configure a secondary RED interface
>> > even though I have a spare NIC available.
>> >
>> > I can add IP aliases from the WAN2 and IPCop appears to respond to
>> > pings for these but the forwarding rules do not work.  I guess traffic
>> > is coming in via WAN2 and outbound traffic is being routed out of WAN1.
>> >
>> > Is there anyway I can solve this with IPCop or any custom rules/routes
>> > I need to add get this working?  Do I need a second IPCop instance?
>> >
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > James
>> >
>>
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