David Wolfe
Occasional Visitor
Hello all,
I just had a secondary ISP connection brought into my home (at least for a while). I've tried to enable the connection on my ASUS AC5300 RT with limited success. Was wondering if what I'm seeing is a known issue...
-Primary WAN port is connected to my Comcast link (this was the existing connection I've had for a while and it's been solid)
-Secondary WAN is now in Ethernet port 4 (new connection from MetroNet - fiber based)
After enabling Dual WAN and specifying port 4 as the new secondary WAN port, the secondary connection won't get an IP. "Lease time" status always shows as "Renewing..."
However, if I flip the WAN connection (config-wise in the router - cables are not being flipped) to be Ethernet port 4 as the primary, it gets an IP just fine and now the Comcast link in the WAN port is in the perpetual "Renewing..." state. So, I know the link is good on both connections and each can get an IP if they are primary.
Is this how a failover config is handled for ASUS (Merlin) firmware? The secondary doesn't get an IP until the primary is offline?
Thanks for any info all.
-David
I just had a secondary ISP connection brought into my home (at least for a while). I've tried to enable the connection on my ASUS AC5300 RT with limited success. Was wondering if what I'm seeing is a known issue...
-Primary WAN port is connected to my Comcast link (this was the existing connection I've had for a while and it's been solid)
-Secondary WAN is now in Ethernet port 4 (new connection from MetroNet - fiber based)
After enabling Dual WAN and specifying port 4 as the new secondary WAN port, the secondary connection won't get an IP. "Lease time" status always shows as "Renewing..."
However, if I flip the WAN connection (config-wise in the router - cables are not being flipped) to be Ethernet port 4 as the primary, it gets an IP just fine and now the Comcast link in the WAN port is in the perpetual "Renewing..." state. So, I know the link is good on both connections and each can get an IP if they are primary.
Is this how a failover config is handled for ASUS (Merlin) firmware? The secondary doesn't get an IP until the primary is offline?
Thanks for any info all.
-David