DUAL WAN (Dual ISP) - UNIFI DREAM MACHINE PRO

In this video, a small demo of how we can setup the Unifi Dream Machine Pro to provide our business network with a dual WAN connection to the internet through a FAIL OVER hand off channel with even another technology (fiber - single-mode fiber - copper).

On this occasion we use the default configuration, Fail Over, through which the availability of internet output is guaranteed, should any of the 2 connections fail.

Remember that the UDM PRO has two WAN ports, one with RJ45 gigabit ethernet technology, and the other with an SFP + port available to connect fiber or rj45 in up to a 10 GbE link.

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[henryesparza]

for years I couldn't figure how to change the spf port as primary. my home network thanks you

[Rozariosma]

Thank you for the thorough information.
Found it very helpful.

[finesse]

Great information! This is something that I’m in the process of doing for my business. You have a new sub. Looking forward for more great content from your channel.

[julienlefeuvre]

Great video thanks. What about the load balancing mode?

[hakanozdemir]

Hi. Very useful video. I have fiber into my house, do I need to still use the router provided by my isp or can I connect it directly to my udm Pro via sfp

[jstechsector]

I use port 10 (sfp) for my main isp and port 9 is my backup wan. on the front display I can not read any longer the internet bandwidth, since port 9 is always displayed.

[mgeo]

Interesting. How does this work with incoming connections and port forwarding?

[moogs]

The SFP is wan or lan. Ports 8, 9, 10, 11 are all WAN optional

[danphilpott]

Awesome video. So helpful! Can you aggravate the isp from the same router, to these two ports using a module to use copper, like you do here? I have 1.5 g source but only through 1G ports on the router. If I aggravate I might be able to get what I pay for?

[bentheguru]

Had all these issues, the UDM hang fixes after a hard power reset, soft-reboots are hit-miss in this case.
Switching the WAN's is needed when one of your WAN's need to hand off with FE rather than GbE/10GbE as the SFP+ port will not work with FE.

[piotrmurzyn]

thanks for all information :)
is there any solution to configure UDM LAN ports as WAN port instead of port no10 ?

[John-vmfq]

I dont plan to use it as redundancy, i simply want to assign certain machine to different ISP, can the hardware/software do that for me?

[wmcomprev]

This is good, but until they allow for easy setup of load balancing and policy based routing (to send a particular device or subnet out a specified WAN), this isn't ready for business use. It's a waste to have one ISP just sitting there on standby. You should be able to use both and take advantage of the increased bandwidth. Of course, if one of the ISPs goes down, then everything would fail over to the functional ISP.

The need for the policy based routing is because some secure connections fail when load balancing. The problem comes in if the destination switches you from server to server, but tries to maintain a single sign-on while doing so. When this happens, the load balancing can see these server changes as different streams and your public IP address keeps changing as the router sends the differing streams out alternating ISPs. Another way around this would be to only use the internal computer's IP address (i.e., the source IP) as the deciding factor for load balancing, but this isn't as efficient.

[mncn]

I ahve a 10G switch that I use. It is linked to to the 10G LAN on the UDM Pro. I want to connect the WAN to the 10G WAN and not use any of the 1G ports on the UDM Pro. Would you recommend that or just use the original WAN 1G port?

[robhowe]

I just bought the SFP+ module for the udm pro, but how is it that the USG supports load balancing 2 WANs but the UDM Pro does not? I stopped using my USG because the cloud controller is garbage. I thought I was buying a better piece of hardware with the UDM Pro, capable of natively supporting load balancing out of the box.

[jp]

Why did you not / or can it? run hot hot load balanced with both links? And IF so is the routing dynamic as in NON service impacting?

Thanks very

[JamesSturge]

Compré el mismo módulo SFP, lo conecte con un cable Cat6 a módem que solo trabaja a Gigabit, configure el puerto para trabajar a 1Gigabit, y reinicie el UDM pero no funciona, el led no no hace blink de comunicación. Creo que el modulo sfp vino dañado.

[HighTecker]

Have you been able to set up load balancing?

[fabriziobau]

Hi, It is possible to replace the hard disk drive (HDD) with SSD

[hofmaniz-ZHF]

i have a UDM PRO and My ISP can Upgrade My Connection to 2.5Gb bat The SFP+ WAN2 Port is Only 1Gb or 10Gb why cant I negotiate to 2.5Gb or 5Gb