06 - Dual WAN Failover - UDM-Pro Complete Setup 2021

The UniFi Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro) is an excellent home user router/firewall/switch/surveillance system device. The UDM-Pro runs the UniFi OS and includes UniFi Network, UniFi Protect, UniFi Access, and UniFi Talk bundled in as applications.

In this series, we will dig deep into how to set up the UDM-Pro and related applications mostly focusing on Network and Protect.

In part 06 I discuss how to set up and use Dual WAN Failover on the UDM-Pro.

Timeline:

00:00 Intro
01:27 Physical Dual WAN Setup
03:00 Dual WAN Setup in the UDM-Pro
04:35 Testing failover

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[MactelecomNetworks]

Great video. I’m hoping they add load balancing back in

[wzk]

Load balancing is something I really need.

[agglad]

2024 here. Not sure which update ruined failover on UDM-PRO. Used to work just fine per instruction in this video. Using Frontier fiber + T-Mobile 5G home internet. Unplugged Frontier tonight to test, takes about 2 - 3 minutes for the connection to failover on UDM-PRO. Used to be a split second without noticeable disruption.

[willcta]

Thanks so much for this series, I was advised for a Mikrotik setup which is great but absolutely impossible to use so as of tomorrow I am replacing everything to a UDM Pro / 3 x U6 Lite / 1 x USW 24 POE PRO / 1 x USW 16 POE

[tomlorek]

Great series! Timing is perfect for me as I’ve jumped into the Unifi world with both feet for my home network. Hope you’re planning a DDNS/Radius/VPN video. Would also like to see how a new VPN network fits in with all of the Guest / IOT rules you created in episode 5.

[hyperlynx]

I love my unifi setup sometimes lol when it breaks not so much lol

[fullsleevetats]

My RUTX11 shows up in a week, and I can't wait to get it configured with dual-WAN failover on my UDMP, and load-balanced across two carrier SIMs in the RUTX11. I can even 'weight' how much traffic goes to each SIM, so I don't have to worry about the UDMP not having an LB built in.

[dragosj]

I find your video very intuitive and easy to understand. Because of your videos I switched from Edge routers/switches to UniFi solution at home and I'm very happy. Can you please do a test and a proper setup for UDM PRO or UDM SE (which I have) for load balancing WAN? With latest firmware update this is possible (at least on UDM SE). What will be the con and pros for load balance against failover (now I'm using failover as I think on load balance some applications are not functioning properly but maybe I miss some settings). Thank you.

[hareshkainth]

Im really need them to bring back Load Balancing.

[symmsm]

Chris, So going through this tutorial on setting up my POSSIBLE UDMPro. At home, I currently am running a EdgeRouter 4 with the UI Controller in a VM. I want to add cameras. Any reason not to dump my ER4 and go with UDMPRO? Everything else I have is Unify.

[liquidthex]

Hello I know this is years old but I have a very random question perhaps you can answer
Using the dream machine pro in a failover WAN configuration is it possible to apply certain firewall rules that only apply in the failover condition?
My use case is that my failover internet would be metered, and so I would like to block high-bandwidth services in a failover condition.
Thanks so much for your videos they've been really helpful!

[nazrizala.tajuddin]

Chris, I am from Malaysia, I enjoy so much all of your videos, because of you... I endup with Ubiquiti UDM-Pro, USW16 and HD Nano for my SoHo networking setup. I like the way you explain and tutorials. LOUD AND CLEAR... easy understanding... I am not a networking / IT guy... due to lack of knowledge on IT, most of configurations and setup, i read and learn alot towards to my SoHo... Thank you Chris~! keep it up!

[TS-hbkx]

Great video series. Suggestion: might help others find earlier videos if you have a link to the series playlist in the description of this/each video

[jasoncobb]

Love this, question though... If I have static IP on both services and my DNS info is all pointing to the primary IP service, if my internet goes down how do I setup the UDMP/SE so the backup ISPs IP is still picking up the traffic pointing to the main ISP IP so my websites etc all still remain accessible during a failover event?

[michaelkopec.]

can I set sfp port as secondary WAN with pppoe with login details as provided by my ISP ?
Thank you, great video,
while in your video, under ipv4, there was DHCP visible. so wanted to make sure. thanks

[hardtimes]

For sure I love the series, thank you!

[MrunalTech]

Glad to start seeing Enterprise features on Unifi!

[norbital]

I've had the load balance feature working about a year ago and tested it with one cable provider and one fiber provider. !

After I rebooted UDMP with them both active it gave me the option for load balance and a setting to use them by percentage of preference.. the UPNP option also requested which WAN connection to use for UPNP mapping. I don't have both now to test as I was transitioning ISP's at the time but am surprised that in your case this isn't available.


The reason I had to reboot because the GPON module wouldn't work untill it rebooted and the console logs showed lots of errors when it was inserted. It all worked after the reboot though. Maybe try it?

[heekambaiya]

Keep it up bro! Greetings from Papua New Guinea

[sebastienguindon]

Thank you !! Great series!! Can you do a video on PI-hole raspberry for the UDM-PRO ?
Tou are the Best networking channel !!