E1500 User Guide

Set up the LAN to WAN firewall zone:

Set up Load Balancing

Navigate to Network > SIMs and note the interface name, slot numbers, and names of SIM cards in the unit.

In the SIM Failover section, check "Enable SIM Failover" to show failover options.

1. Current SIM: The SIM that is currently active. With or without a failover configuration, the user can set the active SIM here.

2. Primary SIM: The SIM that is primary for failover purposes.

3. in the dropdown next to Failover based on, select all three options

   1. Connection Availability

   2. Signal Strength

   3. Network Availability

4. Set Connection Availability criteria

   1. Connection Availability Timeout [min]: 5

5. Set Signal Strength criteria

   1. Signal Strength Timeout [min]: 5

   2. Minimum RSSI [dBm]: -90

6. Set Network Availability criteria

   1. Network Availability Timeout [min]: 5

   2. Network Ping Address: 8.8.8.8

Navigate to Network > Load Balancing > Interfaces

Add WAN interfaces. Be mindful that the names of WAN interfaces you are going to add must match the WAN interface names in the Network > Interfaces menu. Names are case sensitive. For this example, we use "wan_a" and "wan_b".

Configure wan_a as described below. Generally, the default values are used; only the Tracking hostname or IP address needs to be entered.

Figure 117. Network > Load Balancing > Interfaces (input screen)

Figure 118. Network > Load Balancing > Interfaces (interface summary screen)

Click SAVE to create load balancing interface "wan_a"

Repeat steps 1 through 4 for interface wan_b

Figure 119. WAN Interfaces are set up

Navigate to Network > Load Balancing > Members.

Add a member for wan_a, the main interface in this example.

1. On the text input line to the left of the ADD button, enter "failover_wan_a" and click ADD

2. Enter Metric = 1

3. Enter Weight = 1

4. Click the SAVE & APPLY button, followed by the BACK TO OVERVIEW button.

Repeat steps 6-7 to create "failover_wan_b", the backup interface in this example. Set Metric and Weight = 2.

Figure 120. Member Configuration - failover_wan_a

Figure 121. Member Configuration - failover_wan_b

Figure 122. Load Balancing Members are set up

Create the Load Balancing Policy. The policy sets the unit to reject traffic across interfaces that are down.

1. Navigate to the Policies tab.

2. Click on the text input line next to the ADD button, and enter "test_policy".

3. From the Member used dropdown, select both "failover_wan_a" and "failover_wan_b".

4. Use the default setting for Last Resort: unreachable (reject).

5. Click the SAVE & APPLY button, followed by the BACK TO OVERVIEW button.

Figure 123. Network > Load Balancing > Policies (add a policy)

Figure 124. Network > Load Balancing > Policies (define a policy)

Create Load Balancing Rules. Rules determine what traffic uses the Load Balancing Policy defined in the previous step. In our example all traffic to the WAN will be part of the load balancing policy. Here we set up all incoming traffic (to the default route 0.0.0.0/0) to be our rule "classifier."

1. Navigate to the Rules tab

2. In the text input line next to the ADD button, enter "test_rule" and click the ADD button.

3. Configure test_rule as described below. Generally, the default values are used, only the Destination address and the Policy assigned needs to be entered.

   test_rule configuration

   1. Source address: blank

   2. Source port: blank

   3. Destination address: 0.0.0.0/0

   4. Destination port: blank

   5. Protocol: all

   6. Sticky: No

   7. Sticky timeout: blank

   8. IPset: blank

   9. Logging: unchecked

   10. Policy Assigned: test_policy (the policy from the previous step will be available in the dropdown list)

Figure 125. Network > Load Balancing > Rules (define a rule)

Click the SAVE & APPLY button

Navigate to Network > Interfaces and click the EDIT button on LAN1

Figure 130. Network > Interfaces

Select the 'Physical Settings' tab and select the 'Bridge interface' checkbox. In the dropdown menu under 'Interfaces' select lan1 and lan2

Click the SAVE button to close the edit window

Click the SAVE & APPLY button to apply changes

Navigate to Services > SNMPD

Figure 133. Services > SNMPD

Scroll down to the "v2c Traps" section and click the ADD button to open the lines for text input. Enter the required information:

1. Host: IP address of the SNMP server

2. Community: SNMP community string to use when sending traps to the server. This community needs to match the community on the server side.

3. Port: Port on the SNMP server that will be receiving the traps.

Figure 134. Services > SNMPD: v2c Traps

Click the SAVE & APPLY button.