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Click " Activate" in the toolbar at the top of the desktop to apply your configuration
changes.
3.4.4.3 Failover Settings
Use the "Failover" settings to configure a backup connection to the wide area network,
typically the Internet.
The current version allows you to activate either failover or WAN load balancing (see
"Interface Groups" on page 87), not both together.
Some services rely on your gateprotect Firewall being reachable under a specific IP
address. If you supplied the external IP address of a specific WAN interface to those
services, they might not work reliably or fail completely if a broken internet connection
is replaced by a backup connection via automatic failover. gateprotect Firewall offers
automatic management of DynDNS services to handle this issue. When configuring
DynDNS, specify the external IP addresses of those interfaces which should be com-
municated to your DynDNS provider and the order in which they should be used.
Should an interface fail, gateprotect Firewall updates the DynDNS settings automati-
cally. For more information, see Chapter 3.4.4.2, "DynDNS Accounts", on page 80.
Automatic Failover
After multiple physical interfaces have been connected to the WAN zone under "WAN
> WAN Zone > Physical Interfaces" (see "Physical Interfaces" on page 85), auto-
matic failover can be activated. If the connection via the currently active interface fails,
the system automatically switches to the next available interface with the highest prior-
ity. When an interface with a higher priority becomes available again, this interface is
reactivated automatically.
Under "WAN > Failover" , you can set up and activate automatic failover. The "Fail-
over" settings allow you to configure the following elements:
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