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basic-network [2024/02/20 17:36] – [WAN(x) Settings] -clarity, condense hogwild | basic-network [2024/05/07 03:37] – [MultiWAN] -condense, formatting hogwild | ||
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- | **Number of WAN ports**: | + | **Number of WAN ports**: lets you select the number of WAN ports to be used on the device. |
On routers with only one physical WAN interface, options with more WAN ports will be greyed out. You can select only “1 WAN” on such devices. | On routers with only one physical WAN interface, options with more WAN ports will be greyed out. You can select only “1 WAN” on such devices. | ||
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- | **Tune route cache**: | + | **Tune route cache**: is intended for MultiWAN configurations with load balancing. |
This setting is advised when two or more WANs have a weight larger than " | This setting is advised when two or more WANs have a weight larger than " | ||
- | **Check Connections Every: **This is an easy way for FreshTomato to automatically test WAN connection reliability. (Default: Disabled). Choosing any setting but [Disabled] will execute the Watchdog script. This sets how often the router pings to check it is still connected to the Internet. | + | **Check Connections Every: **is an easy way for FreshTomato to automatically test WAN connection reliability. (Default: Disabled). Choosing any setting but [Disabled] will execute the Watchdog script. This sets how often the router |
The Watchdog script uses ping or traceroute to test WAN connection status. | The Watchdog script uses ping or traceroute to test WAN connection status. | ||
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Choosing a setting other than Disabled will make " | Choosing a setting other than Disabled will make " | ||
- | * Target 1 -** **Here, enter the address of the first host to ping regularly | + | * Target 1 -** **Here, enter the address of the first host to ping (Default: Google.com) |
- | * Target 2 - Here, enter the address of the second host to ping regularly | + | * Target 2 - Here, enter the address of the second host to ping (Default: Microsoft.com)\\ |
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**Load Balance Weight: | **Load Balance Weight: | ||
- | {{: | + | {{: |
- | When configuring a router in a MultiWAN configuration, | + | When configuring a router in a MultiWAN configuration, |
- | Now, let's assume we have 2x WANs: | + | For example: |
- | WAN0=" | + | Let's assume we have 2 WANs, as follows: |
- | WAN1=" | + | WAN0=" |
- | At some point, WAN1 fails. As soon as the failure is noticed, WAN0 will bring itself to life and start to route packets. Later, WAN1 recovers its connectivity. As soon as FreshTomato recognizes this, (seconds to minutes), WAN0 is to go back idling while the traffic is re-routed by the resuscitated WAN1. This recovery, back to the originally active interface is also known as **preempting. Preempting is **the default (currently not configurable) behavior in FreshTomato.\\ | + | WAN1=" |
- | A very important | + | At some point, WAN1 fails. As soon as this failure is noticed, WAN0 will activate (assigned with weight 1) and begin routing packets. Later, WAN1 recovers its connectivity. As soon as FreshTomato recognizes this, (within seconds or minutes), WAN0 will be set back to idle status while traffic is rerouted through the revived WAN1. This process of recovering back to the originally active interface is called // |
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* This is usually only for advanced users. \\ \\ | * This is usually only for advanced users. \\ \\ | ||
- | **Shared Key: | + | **Shared Key: |
- | **Group Key Renewal: | + | **Group Key Renewal: |
- | Starting with release 2023.5 | + | Starting with release 2023.5, you can adjust |
- | 1 sec up to 2592000 sec [for mips RT-N / mips-RT-AC | + | |
- | 0 => disabled (not recommended) | + | |
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- | Releases up to 2023.4 can adjust this value within the following limits: | + | |
- | 60 sec up to 7200 sec [all routers] | + | |
+ | In releases up to 2023.4, you can set this within the following limits: 60 sec to 7200 sec [all routers] | ||