WAN Failover/Failback: Graceful/Immediate

rhbirkelund
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WAN Failover/Failback: Graceful/Immediate

It might just be me, but has anyone else noticed this? Didn't it just show up within the last few days?

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The documentation was updated two days ago, Nov. 21.

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Firewall_and_Traffic_Shaping/Connection_Monitoring_for_WAN_Failo...

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alemabrahao
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Nope, what version are you running?

I am not a Cisco Meraki employee. My suggestions are based on documentation of Meraki best practices and day-to-day experience.

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ww
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Yes i noticed yesterday. Previous  it was only available at the local status page

Ryan_Miles
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The feature went live 11/16/22. Requires MX17 firmware. And only works in non-templated networks.

when will the template have those options?

Mloraditch
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Is it just me or does anyone else want immediate failover but graceful failback? That seems like the ideal scenario. 

Jeizzen
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Yeah......a VoIP flow that has dead air because the expiry time has not ended and it is still on the failed WAN 1 (in Graceful Mode failover), waiting for something to happen for 300 seconds ??

TheAlchemist
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And what is expiry time? and how long ? 5 minutes? so if preferred uplink fails still all existing traffic will use it i.e. no connection to internet till "expiry" i.e. no internet connectivity for 5 minutes? 

 

 

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Did you ever find an answer to this? I want to know what the expiry time is as well.

Jeizzen
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Here's an answer from meraki:

 

In case the link goes down, the failover would be immediate.

 

But a soft failure occurs when the link is still up, but there is no connectivity over it.


All flows going over the Non-Preferred link will continue to be bound to the Non-Preferred link until 300 seconds pass without seeing any relevant frame or if TCP ended the session related to the flow on the Non-Preferred link.

In this scenario, there is a chance that you'll have an active flow that will remain active on the Non-Preferred link after hours since the recovery of the preferred link.

 

 

Is there a way in Meraki events to know whether the failover was hard or soft? 

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