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Performance based routing (aka SD-WAN)

Performance based routing (aka SD-WAN)
Performance based routing (aka SD-WAN)
2025-09-01 23:22:26 - last edited 2025-09-02 02:04:07
Model: ER8411  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.3.2

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping to get some insight on optimizing my multi-WAN setup. Here's my current hardware:

Controller: Omada OC300

Gateway: Omada ER8411

Switches: Omada SX3832 and Omada SG3428X-M2

I'm looking for a way to enable true performance-based routing at my single site. I'm aware of the "SD-WAN" feature in the controller, but it appears to be exclusively for setting up multi-site Hub-and-Spoke VPNs.

My goal is to have the gateway actively measure the real-time latency and packet loss of my WANs and then route new sessions to the best-performing path at that moment. This is different from the current "Load Balancing Weight" feature, which is a static, proportional split.

Does the ER8411 support this kind of dynamic, performance-based routing for a single gateway, perhaps via a hidden setting, the CLI, or a beta firmware?

Thanks for any insights!

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2025-09-02 00:32:18 - last edited 2025-09-02 02:04:07

  @Rblask 

 

No it does not

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2025-09-02 00:32:18 - last edited 2025-09-02 02:04:07

  @Rblask 

 

No it does not

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Re:Performance based routing (aka SD-WAN)
2025-09-02 01:13:16

  @GRL 

Not sure if you're saying it doesn't support that feature or there is no way to access it that way.

 

Back in March in firmware version 1.3.0 one of the new features was adding support for SD-WAN

Link:

https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/762178

This is only available through a controller but er8411 does support it. It is however limited to a global option requiring selecting spokes as I mentioned. 

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Re:Performance based routing (aka SD-WAN)
2025-09-02 02:05:08

  @Rblask 

Rblask wrote

  @GRL 

Not sure if you're saying it doesn't support that feature or there is no way to access it that way.

 

Back in March in firmware version 1.3.0 one of the new features was adding support for SD-WAN

Link:

https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/762178

This is only available through a controller but er8411 does support it. It is however limited to a global option requiring selecting spokes as I mentioned. 

There is no such feature described in the OP. 

GRL is correct about this. 

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Re:Performance based routing (aka SD-WAN)
2025-09-02 09:24:33

  @Clive_A 

So what did TP-Link add with that firmware saying "Add support to SD-WAN"?

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Re:Performance based routing (aka SD-WAN)
2025-09-02 09:26:07

  @Rblask 

 

SD-WAN is software-defined-wide-area-network - a method of easily linking multiple routers together over the internet in one central way instead of setting up complex VPNs between them

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Re:Performance based routing (aka SD-WAN)
2025-09-03 00:47:27

  @Rblask 

Rblask wrote

  @Clive_A 

So what did TP-Link add with that firmware saying "Add support to SD-WAN"?

If you misunderstand the meaning of it, you can Google the term of it. 

It's the literal meaning, add support, which a new feature, called SD-WAN is added to the system and you can configure SD-WAN to form a network, especially, LAN-to-LAN on the devices where they don't have a public IP. 

 

As GRL explained, that's the correct definition of it. 

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