TL-ER6120 VPN Load balancing

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TL-ER6120 VPN Load balancing
TL-ER6120 VPN Load balancing
2018-05-11 22:57:56 - last edited 2021-04-20 11:45:33
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Hi,

We have 2 VDSL (ADSL+) lines for internet Access at the office, and I bought a month ago 2 TL-ER6120 (V2) in order to balance the load of internet traffic AND site to site VPN on the 2 VDSL lines.
The scope is double: Take advantage of the 2 line's added bandwidth, and not lose connectivity if one of the VDSL lines fails.





I discovered that the TL-ER6120 doesn't allow to build the same VPN on 2 different WANs (same local network, same remote network)... Bad luck!
So I built this weird topology (see figure above) so that I can have 2 concurrent VPNs links (through sub-networks). This happens to work!
TL1 at bottom is in charge of load-balancing
[*]TL2 above is in charge of VPN links
But my issue is about failover: I have setup online detection on the 4 WANs of TL1:
WAN1 and WAN2 : ping on google (8.8.8.8)
[*]WAN3 and WAN4 : ping on remote Sophos firewall (internal interface)
What I would like is easy:
If WAN1 online detection fails, I want TL1 to route the traffic to WAN2 (and vice-versa)
[*]If WAN3 online detection fails, I want TL1 to route the traffic to WAN4 (and vice-versa)
Online detection doesn't seem to work: I need to disconnect the cable from the failing WAN interface of TL1 so that it stops using it.
This means that for example if VDSL line on the left goes down, I'll have to disconnect physically both blue cables (WAN1 and WAN3) from the TL1... That is what I would like to avoid.

Can anybody help?

Thanks in advance,

Eric.

PS: I can give more details on how I configured this if someone is interested.
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Re:TL-ER6120 VPN Load balancing
2018-05-25 13:54:42 - last edited 2021-04-20 11:45:33
You need to setup Link Backup/ post link backup configuration
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2018-05-25 19:44:26 - last edited 2021-04-20 11:45:33
Thanks for your answer fearthebeard,But I understand that if I choose to setup Link Backup (ex. WAN2 as backup of WAN1 and WAN4 as backup of WAN3), I can't benefit of load-balancing, or?It would be nice if online detection could work with load balancing (automatically skip offline links).
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