Hi @MikeW1 

Thanks for posting in our business forum.

MikeW1 wrote

I hope someone can point me to some material for guidance.  I have a network with 2 vlans, one for business and one for employees and visitors.  right now building 1 has a ER7206 router connecting to the internet for both vlans.  I want to put an ER7206 in building 2 (diffenent ISP) for business vlan and leave employee/vistior vlan on building 1.  Then if there are issues with either ISP, point both vlans to the working ISP.

 

I do not have the equipment to setup a full test environment so my experimenting would disrupt production.  Any information/suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Omada version 5.14.32.4

network ER7206 router

switches    SG2008P

APs         EAP225-OUTDOOR

                EAP625-OUTDOOR

Bridges    EAP215-Bridge

                 CPE-510

                  CPE-210

Thank you.

Do you mean two routers? Or one?

If one, that should be fine but you gotta figure out the cabling.

Load balance should be what you need for dual ISP. Link Backup.

Common Questions About the Load Balancing, Link Backup(Failover) & Online Detection

  @Clive_A 

building 1                                                                                                                  Building 5

ISP1 -- ER7206-1 -- SG2008P ---(APs, Bridges, Switches on campus) --- SG2008P -- ER7206-2--ISP2

Vlans 1, 5, 10,15 throught full network.

Only Vlan 15 passed to  ER7206-1 and Vlan 1,5,10 passed to ER7206-2

If and ISP fails, manually change config to send all Vlans to other ER7206 and once issues resolved manually change back.

This is what I am attempting to accomplish.   ISP1 has data volume limits, lower bandwidth, higher reliability, ISP2 does not. limit, higher bandwidth, but has had reliabiltiy issues in the past.

So, I do not want load balance, but to direct traffic.  Vlan 15 would not reach volume levels to invoke additional charges, but need to be always flowing.

I hope this is clear.

Hi @MikeW1 

Thanks for posting in our business forum.

MikeW1 wrote

  @Clive_A 

 

building 1                                                                                                                  Building 5

 

ISP1 -- ER7206-1 -- SG2008P ---(APs, Bridges, Switches on campus) --- SG2008P -- ER7206-2--ISP2

 

Vlans 1, 5, 10,15 throught full network.

Only Vlan 15 passed to  ER7206-1 and Vlan 1,5,10 passed to ER7206-2

 

If and ISP fails, manually change config to send all Vlans to other ER7206 and once issues resolved manually change back.

 

This is what I am attempting to accomplish.   ISP1 has data volume limits, lower bandwidth, higher reliability, ISP2 does not. limit, higher bandwidth, but has had reliabiltiy issues in the past.

So, I do not want load balance, but to direct traffic.  Vlan 15 would not reach volume levels to invoke additional charges, but need to be always flowing.

 

I hope this is clear.

Load balance would not work when it comes to two different routers.

And it does not make sense to me as you connect these buildings like this.

It is wrong to connect(design) them like this based on basic networking knowledge.

I am not able to make suggestions on this.

It is not proper from the start and it is no wonder it does not make some sense to me when I read the first description.

  @MikeW1 

I not sure why this does not make sense. This is the original reason for the creation of VLANS.

I have a network that is connected to an ISP demark in building 1.  there are switches and lines placed between my building that get the systems that need to be on that network connected.

I have a network that is connected to a different ISP with demark in building 5  There is a different set of switches and lines between the building and users that use that network are connected to those switches.

By using VLANs we eliminate the second line between the buildings and the expense and maintenance of a second set of switches as now one set of switches support both networks and keeps them logically isolated.

The adding of some level 3 routing functions can muddy the situation and one must be very careful in designing with routing functions in the switch.

My issue is that I cannot see how to add the second router in Omada.