WAN Connections.

[collosa]

Hi All!

Can one use two different ISP as backup for a High-Availability Pair setup?

ISP1 as primary on the HA on Vlan 888

Both ISP2 and ISP3 as secondary on the HA on Vlan 777

BR

Collins

[GreenMan]

There's no really easy way to use two links upstream of an MX on it's backup WAN port, currently.   You'd need a further upstream router, really.  This functionality will come to MX models with >2 WAN ports in the future, via firmware update.

[collosa]

Thanks for your quick response. Is it possible then to make ISP1 to be Primary uplink on MX64-01&02 HA

why I use ISP2 as backup or secondary connection for MX64-01 and ISP3 as  backup or secondary connection for MX64-03? Will this setup work?

[cmr]

Any ETA on this, we have been asking for it for the last four years 🙃

[GreenMan]

It could probably be made to work, if what you're providing is just Internet access (you'd have to have more than one Network for the three MXs) - VPN operations would be more complicated and it wouldn't be very 'Meraki-simple'.

Why does the customer need two backup links?   Given the cost of connectivity, two is enough for most customers - particularly if you use MX with built-in cellular (MX67C / MX68CW)

[collosa]

No worries. Thanks for your response. 

The setup I am talking about is a 2 X MX64  in HA and 3 different ISPs.

[collosa]

The reason we need 2 backup is because the current backup is not reliable. 

[GreenMan]

I think I'd be tempted to get rid of the unreliable supplier and go for two decent uplinks.

[collosa]

That was my initial recommendation.