Dual WAN Gateway Access

[veroikeb]

I’m using Dual WAN configuration on an Asus router. The router gateway is 192.168.50.1 while gateway of router that serves secondary WAN is 192.168.8.1

Can I access my secondary WAN router (192.168.8.1) through my main router (192.168.50.1)?

Thanks for reading.

 

[ColinTaylor]

I don't see why not assuming you're in load balancing mode. Why don't you try it?

 

[veroikeb]

I tried. Couldn’t access it. For reference, the main router LAN IP is 192.168.50.1 with subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

 

[veroikeb]

I don't see why not assuming you're in load balancing mode. Why don't you try it?

I’m using FailOver Mode if that helps.

 

[ColinTaylor]

I’m using FailOver Mode if that helps.

I think that's the problem. IIRC the secondary interface is normally down in fail-over mode.

 

[veroikeb]

Yup. That sounds about right. When I disconnected Primary WAN to mimick ISP disruption, that’s when I was able to access secondary WAN router’s gateway. I gather there’s no way around this limitation, right?

 

[ColinTaylor]

Sorry, I don't know. I don't use dual WAN.

 

[Hikari]

Hello, what's ur router OS?

I use OpenWRT and am able to do it, even on the modem that's on bridge mode.

On OpenWRT, we must create an interface that redirects requests to the modem, so that the router knows where to route it, because it doesn't know automatically. Once the interface is created, it works fine.

Note that it works because the modem, even on bridge mode, provide an IP addr on its port. This makes it directly (on its POV) reachable from the LAN. It doesn't have amInternet addr because it's the router who's making the PPPoE connection and receiving IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, so the modem is unable to reach Internet, but it's reaclable from LAN.