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FVS318N not port forwarding, nothing being allowed inbound.
I have purchased an configured a FVS318N as the firewall to our failover Internet connection but I am having problems getting anything in from the outside world. I have configured many FVS338 firewall...
Hi Adit
Looks like you hit the nail on the head, I had not taken into account that under a real life scenario of us losing the main Internet connection all Gateways would be changed by default to the failover connection. This is where it pays to have a dual WAN device that keeps the same LAN IP but automatically fails over the WAN connection. I now feel I complete idiot as this is basic rule of thumb networking.
Many Thanks for the help, same to you jmizoguchi your input was much appreciated.
We can now lay this one to rest.
Kind Regards
Neal.
Looks like you hit the nail on the head, I had not taken into account that under a real life scenario of us losing the main Internet connection all Gateways would be changed by default to the failover connection. This is where it pays to have a dual WAN device that keeps the same LAN IP but automatically fails over the WAN connection. I now feel I complete idiot as this is basic rule of thumb networking.
Many Thanks for the help, same to you jmizoguchi your input was much appreciated.
We can now lay this one to rest.
Kind Regards
Neal.
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