Re: [Astlinux-users] WAN Bridge interface

[Michael K. <mic...@ip...>]

It's a static address with the gateway address shared on the firewalls as active and standby. Not sure if they have a virtual address like VRRP but doesn't make any difference from Astlinux's perspective.
I did some testing and all seemed to work. Its on a Qotom box so I assume performance should not be an issue.

Regards
Michael Knill

On 3/2/22, 9:00 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lo...> wrote:

    Hi Michael,

    It would be a special case where you would want the WAN to be a bridge interface.

    How is the WAN interface's IP address defined?

    I'm not sure how your two WAN trunks are routed to your bridge interface.

    But, if a 2-port ethernet switch would work, so should a 2-interface linux bridge.

    Lonnie




    > On Feb 2, 2022, at 3:33 PM, Michael Knill <mic...@ip...> wrote:
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    > Hi Group
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    > I have set up two ports on my Astlinux box into a bridge and allocated to the WAN interface. These ports are connected behind a primary and failover Watchguard firewall as a DMZ interface. The LAN interface connects to the Voice VLAN making this system a VPN router only for about 70 phones.
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    > Just wanting to know if anyone can see any issues with this architecture as I haven’t used bridge interfaces before.
    > It just seems better than sticking a switch in between creating another single point of failure.
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