What is the difference between WAN failover and load balancing?

What is the difference between WAN failover and load balancing?

WAN Failover enables you to configure one of the user-defined interfaces as a secondary WAN port. You can select a method of dividing the outbound WAN traffic between the two WAN ports and balance network traffic. Load-balancing is currently only supported on Ethernet WAN interfaces, but not on WWAN interfaces.

What is WAN load balancing?

WAN load balancing (sometimes referred to as dual-WAN routing or multi-homing) gives you the ability to balance traffic across two or more WAN links without having to use complex routing protocols.

How do you configure dual WAN on SonicWall?

To configure this mode:

1. Click Manage | Network | Interfaces tab.
2. Click Configure for the X2 interface (Secondary WAN interface).
3. Under IP assignment, choose PPPoE from the drop down menu.
4. Enter the User name and User password given by the ISP.

How does SonicWall load balancing Work?

Load Balancing distributes traffic among similar network resources so that no single server becomes overwhelmed, allowing for reliability and redundancy. If one server becomes unavailable, traffic is routed to available resources, providing maximum uptime.

How do I manually fail SonicWall?

To force Active/Standby Failover, click Force Active/Standby Failover. This option attempts an Active/Standby HA failover to the secondary unit. Use this action to test the HA failover functionality is working properly. When finished with all High Availability configuration, click Accept.

Does load balancing increase speed?

1 Answer. A load balancer will not improve the speed of connections without special hardware on the receiving end. Multi-homing (using multiple Internet connections) improves throughput (bandwidth) but not speed.

What is LB status in SonicWall?

LB Status – Displays the status of load balancing. Main Target – Displays whether probing is performed on the main target. Alternate Target – Displays whether probing is performed on the alternate target.

How does SonicWALL HA work?

High Availability provides a way to share SonicWALL licenses between two SonicWALL security appliances when one is acting as a high availability system for the other. To use this feature, you must register the SonicWALL appliances on MySonicWALL as Associated Products. Both appliances must be the same SonicWALL model.

How do I manually fail SonicWALL?

How do I set high availability on SonicWALL?

To configure High Availability on the Primary SonicWall, perform the following steps:

1. Login to the SonicWall management Interface.
2. Click Device in the top navigation menu.
3. Navigate to High Availability | Settings.
4. Configure the Mode as “Active / Standby”.
5. Check “Enable Stateful Synchronization”.

How do I do simple load balancing on the SonicWall?

This feature also allows you to do simple load balancing for the WAN traffic on the SonicWALL. You can select a method of dividing the outbound WAN traffic between the two WAN ports and balance network traffic. Load-balancing is currently only supported on Ethernet WAN interfaces, but not on WWAN interfaces.

How do I enable WAN interface monitoring for SonicWall firewalls?

For firewalls that are generation 6 and newer we suggest to upgrade to the latest general release of SonicOS 6.5 firmware. On the Network| WAN Failover & Load Balancing page, under WAN Interface Monitoring, check the Enable Probe Monitoring box. Check the Respond to Probes box to have the SonicWall respond to TCP probes received on its WAN ports.

How do I enable load balancing on a WAN interface?

Expand the Network tree and click WAN Failover & LB. The WAN Failover & LB page displays. Select Enable Load Balancing. Select the secondary interface (s) from the Secondary WAN Interface pull-down menu. If this is not configured, you need to configure a WAN interface from the Network > Interfaces page.

Does sonicos enhanced support Wan failover and load balancing?

SonicWall UTM appliances running SonicOS Enhanced support Wan Failover and Load Balancing. This article covers one particular method (Ratio-Based Load Balancing) in a deployment scenario where the installation has three available internet service providers.