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How to route with two firewalls and each has their own ISP

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  • 1.  How to route with two firewalls and each has their own ISP

    Posted 2 days ago

    I have been working on this for awhile, going back and forth with our Security person... 

    We have a network with a firewall on each "side" and each firewall has its own ISP. We want to set it up to send traffic out whichever one is currently up if either ISP goes down for whatever reason, but ideally, both would be active.

    For Example:

    ISP 1 <--> Firewall 1 <--> Switch A <--> Switch B <--> Switch C <--> Firewall 2 <--> ISP 2

    I am trying to figure out how I can use routing to use either one with both connections being up. I'm using OSPF as my routing protocol and was thinking I could use a different metric maybe or some kind of static routes and then redistribute them. Has anyone done something similar to this or is there a better way to go about this? I thought maybe EIGRP instead of OSPF?



  • 2.  RE: How to route with two firewalls and each has their own ISP

    EMPLOYEE
    Posted 2 days ago

    That is normally something you do on the firewall, or an SD-WAN/SD-Branch device. This is not something straight-forward, and ISPs, firewalls, switches, routing design all may need to be taken into account. It may be something to work on with your networking partner. While the question may look pretty basic, especially for active-active loadbalancing over multiple ISP links it may be quite challenging to get that properly setup; and it's something that SD-WAN (or Aruba SD-Branch) is designed to do.



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