Re: [Astlinux-users] Pinging the failover interface

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

> My assumption is that the reply will route out the primary interface so it will not work.

Exactly.  If there is not a return route to your source IP the packet is lost.

Or if over WireGuard, a too narrow AllowedIPs to allow the return packet.

Using "ip r" at each end should tell the story.

Lonnie



> On Jul 23, 2019, at 3:58 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:
> 
> Hi group
>  
> Forgive my ignorance but should I be able to ping the failover Astlinux interface if the primary is up? I cant for one of my sites but it used to work for some reason. The link seems fine and I can ping the secondary WAN gateway.
> My assumption is that the reply will route out the primary interface so it will not work.
>  
> Regards
> Michael Knill
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