So, MS Surfaces and Forticlient VPN have been one of my Nemesis' at a
specific site for a specific user. Previously when we upgraded his
Surface Pro a few years ago, when he'd connect via SSL VPN, internet
connectivity would slow way down, at that ti...
Replacing a dual-wan Peplink unit with a dual wan Fortinet 100E firewall
(5.4.11 iirc). Wan1 has a fibre connection (static ip) and Wan2 has a
dsl connection (pppoe with static ip assigned via pppoe). lan to wan1 is
just data traffic, servers, workst...
If only.... I've given up on them, they've basically
ignored my requests for them to fix this. I've now got 3 firewalls on
Telus doing what 1 firewall did quite nicely on Shaw. I am moving the
servers to our DC as it's clear that Telus' Pure Fibre s...
Turns out that this does work using sidewaysguy's suggestions with dual
wan. However in my case, their arp and routing is horribly broken so
connectivity typically stops after a few hours. After many phone calls,
this is finally being routed up to th...
After a chat with a Telus helpdesk tech on the weekend, he indicated the
ARP config (arp relay) on the Fibre modem wasn't setup and was the
likely root cause of the issue. He fixed that and now access to the 2nd
ip from outside the Telus gateway no l...
Scratch that, just like the last few days, it works fine for part of the
day and fails again. I suspect the fact that it worked as per my above
posting is likely coincidental more than anything else. Back to the
drawing board Though removing the ip f...
Well so far not so good. After running set allow-subnet-overlap enable
Using the "static" on Wan1, I am able to get one of their temporary
dynamics in a different subnet on Wan2, but as soon as I assign the
"static" to the mac address for Wan2, reboo...
