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Arcam
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January 10, 2017
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Dual WAN Cascade on FG100D running 5.2.10

  • January 10, 2017
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Hi Folks,

 

I have 2 WAN connections which I currently use routing policies to send traffic out, I would like to know if it is possible to cascade/overflow traffic from WAN1 to WAN2 when a certain bandwidth is exceeded, for example:

 

WAN1 hits 10Mbs usage and I would like the "excess" traffic to then use WAN2 until the load is reduced on WAN1 at which point WAN1 should be used again.

 

I have come across a number of FG docs which allude to the fact this may be possible but if anyone could point me in the right direction I would be grateful.

 

Thanks

Eddie

Best answer by BWiebe

ECMP is what you are looking for in this scenario.

 

Looks like Spillover will do what you want.

 

Details here:

 

http://help.fortinet.com/fos50hlp/52data/Content/FortiOS/fortigate-advanced-routing-52/Routing_Advanced_Static/adv_static_example.htm

 

and 

 

http://cookbook.fortinet.com/multipath-routing-basics/

 

Thanks,

7 replies

BWiebe
BWiebeAnswer
New Member
January 10, 2017

ECMP is what you are looking for in this scenario.

 

Looks like Spillover will do what you want.

 

Details here:

 

http://help.fortinet.com/fos50hlp/52data/Content/FortiOS/fortigate-advanced-routing-52/Routing_Advanced_Static/adv_static_example.htm

 

and 

 

http://cookbook.fortinet.com/multipath-routing-basics/

 

Thanks,

Arcam
ArcamAuthor
New Member
January 10, 2017

Thank you, I will give that a go. The only issue is the downtime in setting it up as the current WAN ports need to be deleted along with the policies etc to set it up.

 

Cheers

 

Eddie

MikePruett
New Member
January 10, 2017

You don't have to delete the existing WAN ports or anything unless you are wanting to add them to a different zone or something like that.

 

With the existing policies in place (as long as they mirror each other) you can setup ECMP how you want.

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