I chose switching since this is where we are seeing it. We have 2 ISP's. They both hit the 8 port switch which then hits each of the FW's (primary and spare).
If we fail ISP #1, the network stays up, but the switch reports as down. How do I make the switch follow the other ISP as the primary?
Theoretically this is supposed to be automatic. Do you have any traffic routing rules (Flow Preferences)?
No routing settings.
You could give the switch a private address from the firewall lan side
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I will look into this. I may have a completely different ISP setup when we move to the actual location and this will change how I can offer IP's to the switch and MX's.
Is your 8 port switch doing WAN breakout like shown in my diagram?
And if yes, is the mgmt VLAN of the switch coming from the LAN side of the MXs?
It will failover - but it will take MUCH longer. Around 5 minutes.
My install is next week, so unless there's a time limit, I am going to keep this open.