> --- On Fri, 8/6/10, Volker Poplawski <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Volker Poplawski <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Efw-user] Uplink failover timeout to small > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 6:53 PM > > Hi all. > > > > Efw is a bit too hasty in declaring the main uplink as > > dead. > > > > Every night our DSL connection is cut by the ISP. Our DSL > > router reconnects in > > about a minute. But in this period Efw has allready started > > the expensive UMTS > > backup uplink. > > > > How do i increase the failover timeout? > > > > > > Regards > > .....Volker
On Saturday 07 August 2010 14:31:21 eric rosel wrote: > Hi Volker, > > I'm also a bit new to EFW, I recently installed 2.4 Community, can you > please describe how you configured EFW with 2 uplinks? Does it do > load-balancing across your 2 uplinks? > > I also have 2 uplinks, and I'll try to configure it like yours, so we can > compare notes, and maybe arrive at a solution. > > Thanks, > -eric > Hi Eric. I have a 'main' uplink, which is a A-DSL line and a secondary uplink, which is a UMTS modem. The secondary uplink is to take over (i.e. started) when the main uplink fails to keep internet connection going. I do not do load balancing. main uplink was setup via 'system' => 'network configuration'. In my case efw is connected to a DSL router which does the DSL, pppoe and nat stuff. The settings under 'network' => 'Interfaces' => 'Uplink Editor' are Type: Ethernet Static Device: The eth interface, the dsl router is connected to IP address & netmask : 192.168.114.1/24 (192.168.114.0 is a transfer net between the dsl router and efw. 192.168.114.1 is the ip of the efw in that net) Default GW: 192.168.114.254 (that's the dsl router) Prim DNS: our internal dns Sec DNS: 8.8.8.8 (that's google's dns) Uplink is enabled and started on boot and managed Now come the settings relevant to failover 'If this uplink fails activate' 'uplink1' (uplink1 is the umts uplink) 'check hosts': 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8 pings and should be reliable) (no 'advanced settings') Secondary uplink 'uplink1' (the name is assigned by efw and can not be changed) is a Huawei UMTS usb modem. It runs out of the box on efw and OpenSuse 11.x. Just make sure you reboot efw in case it gets unplugged from usb. Otherwise the device assignment (ttyUSBx) will get messed up in efw and the uplink won't work. Settings are Type: Analog/Umts Modem Serial/USB Port: Usb Port 0 Modem Type: UMTS/HSDPA modem Baudrate: 460800 Access point name: pinternet.interkom.de (given to me by my UMTS ISP) AuthMethod: PAP or CHAP Uplink is enabled and NOT started on boot and uplink is managed 'if this uplink fails....' is NOT checked Check hosts: 8.8.8.8 (no 'advanced settings') Problems are: efw will s.t. loose the UMTS modem from the usb bus and needs a reboot. This might be are HW problem. Failover gets triggered to easily. see above. Hope this helps you. Regards ......Volker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
