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chore: clarify WAN interface handling in HA management (#264)
Clarified handling of WAN interfaces in HA setup, emphasizing their special case status and the rationale behind not triggering failover on WAN failures. Updated to highlight MultiWAN management's role in connectivity issues.
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3. **WAN interfaces**:
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These interfaces are treated as special cases. WANs may have limitations when using the three-address scheme (for example, when public IPs are assigned), and it is essential to prevent conflicts between HA mechanisms and MultiWAN management.
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For this reason, WAN interfaces do not trigger a failover, ensuring proper MultiWAN handling, especially in complex or high-value installations.
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These interfaces are handled as special cases. WAN connectivity issues are generally more likely than a physical failure of a switch, cable, or network card. Triggering an HA failover when a single WAN goes down would usually not provide any real benefit: the secondary firewall would be affected by the same upstream connectivity issue, while the failover itself could introduce unnecessary disruption.
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For this reason, WAN failures do not trigger a switch from the primary firewall to the secondary one. WAN availability should be handled by MultiWAN, which is designed to manage connectivity loss, link failover, and traffic routing across multiple uplinks. This also prevents conflicts between HA mechanisms and MultiWAN management, especially in complex or high-value installations.
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WAN interfaces only need to be configured on the primary node; they are automatically replicated to the secondary node, further details are provided in the dedicated section below.
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