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rkhair
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December 23, 2015
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FortiOS 5.4 and ECMP settings?

  • December 23, 2015
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I have installed 5.4GA on a test 60D unit, all is kind of okay, i have turned on Advanced Routing under features.. i see no place though where i can configure ECMP (inc. health monitor)? does anyone know where this feature has gone?! it used to be under settings in Static routing on 5.2... but is missing on 5.4 even when Advanced routing is turned off..

Best answer by MikePruett

Create a zone called OUTSIDE....throw both of your WAN ports in it.

 

Have default routes for each link (with the backup link having higher AD / Priority)

 

Configure link monitoring (config system link-monitor) and set a link fail monitor for each interface.

 

When WAN1 (or whatever your preferred WAN is) fails the check (can't ping google or whatever server you put in there) enough to cross the threshold the link monitor will yank the static route and use the backup link.

 

I deploy this for all of my multi circuit clients that want the secondary circuit (usually slower) for failover only.

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Dave_Hall
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December 23, 2015

According to the advance static routing examples the 5.4 FortiOS Handbook still has it listed under Router>static>settings.  But from the What's new section, it kinda looks like it's under WAN link Load balancing.

 

 

rkhair
rkhairAuthor
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December 23, 2015

i saw that and thought the same, however there is no where to assign it to an interface like the old way (to WAN1 or WAN2) so cant see how it works to remove a route from routing table if a ping health check fails... seems like you can set it up by CLI (using online manual info where you saw the old instructions) but the GUI is gone..

 

anyone confirm? its specifically ECMP.. not any type of WAN load balancing..