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300E x3, 200D, 140D, 94D, 90D x2, 80D, 40C, handful of 60E's.. starting to loose track.
Over 100 WiFi AP's and growing.
FAZ-200D
FAC-VM 2 node cluster
Friends don't let friends FWF!
Hello, I am wondering if anyone can provide some advise? I am looking at a 4G wireless backup option for our office internet. We have a Fortinet FortiWifi 40C firewall, and this has a USB port that apparently a 4G USB modem can be plugged into (and used as a backup internet connection when our iinet goes down). I ran this: fnsysctl cat /etc/modem_list.conf And it displayed this:
dev=2001:7e19 driver=serial vendor="D-Link" model="DWM-221"
dev=2001:a401 msg=555342435b000000000000000001061e000000000000000000000000000000 vendor="D-Link" model="DWM-221"
dev=2001:a401 msg=555342435d000000000000000001061b000000020000000000000000000000 vendor="D-Link" model="DWM-221"
Which is this one :http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/product/dwm-221-4g-lte-usb-adapter Is it a case of me signing up with an internet provider offering a 'sim only 4G' service, that I then use the above USB dongle to plug into the fortinet to have backup up internet? Thank you for any help. Kind regards, Anthony
USB modems are partially configured in the CLI.
To enable a 4G modem, set
config sys global
set use-usb-wan enableand then of course
config sys modem
...to configure the modem.
Please be aware that this is not a 100 % guaranteed-to-work option. For testing, I'd get a prepaid SIM with some data volume and only after successfully using the 4G-wan port I'd buy a data SIM contract. For continued usage better avoid contracts based on data volume.
Usage is simple once you've got the 4G-wan port running: put the current wan port and the modem port into a "WAN load balancing port" (in v5.2) or configure ECMP on both, setting identical default routes but a lower priority on the modem port. This way, you can use the virtual port in policies regardless of the actually used wan port.
Hello, Thank you so much for the advise - much appreciated :) Kind regards, Anthony
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