Thanks Lonnie

Sorry for the late reply. Yes I'm using the outbound-snat plugin.
So just to confirm:
SECONDARY)
....
      ## Disable outbound-snat plugin in both iptables and config file in case 
of reboot
      iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -j OUTBOUND_SNAT
      sed -i 's/^ENABLED=.*$/ENABLED=0/' 
/etc/arno-iptables-firewall/plugins/outbound-snat.conf
      ;;

    PRIMARY)
...
      ## Re-Enable outbound-snat plugin and config file
      iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j OUTBOUND_SNAT
      sed -i 's/^ENABLED=.*$/ENABLED=1/' 
/etc/arno-iptables-firewall/plugins/outbound-snat.conf
      ;;

I'm thinking that I might look at OUTBOUND_SNAT_NET_HOST to see if something is 
set to make the decision on whether I disable and re-enable so it can be a 
generic script.

PS. Would this be worth doing as part of the standard failover as I cant think 
of any instance where we would not want to disable SNAT when it fails over to 
another WAN interface.

Regards
Michael Knill

On 18/3/21, 1:49 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:

    Hi Michael,

    When you say you have SNAT configured, are you using the nat-loopback 
plugin or the outbound-snat plugin ?

    Either of those require obtaining the WAN IPv4 address to attach iptables 
"-j SNAT --to-source $ip" rules, and as written only look at the primary 
external address.  Even if the Failover interface was looked at, the firewall 
would have to be rebuilt for the failover context switch with the 
/mnt/kd/wan-failover.script .

    Question, does either of these plugins make sense for a failover situation ?

    Possibly you want to disable the outbound-snat plugin on failover and 
re-enable it on return to primary ?

    If you have the special case of the outbound-snat plugin enabled, you could 
(untested code):

    -- /mnt/kd/wan-failover.script snippet --

    SECONDARY)
      ## Switched to Failover using secondary WAN link

      ## Disable outbound-snat plugin
      iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -j OUTBOUND_SNAT
      ;;

    PRIMARY)
      ## Switched back to normal using primary WAN link

      ## Re-Enable outbound-snat plugin
      iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j OUTBOUND_SNAT
      ;;

    --
    but this is somewhat fragile, such that if the firewall was restarted 
during failover it would revert to the PRIMARY setting.  To be less fragile, 
you could also add:
    --
    sed -i 's/^ENABLED=.*$/ENABLED=0/' 
/etc/arno-iptables-firewall/plugins/outbound-snat.conf"
    --
    and ENABLED=1 on return to PRIMARY.


    Lonnie



    > On Mar 17, 2021, at 1:16 AM, Michael Knill 
<michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote:
    > 
    > Grr problem now found. I had SNAT configured which didn't work on the 
second WAN connection.
    > Any way I can fix this e.g. don't do SNAT on the failover WAN?
    >  
    > Regards
    > Michael Knill
    >  
    > From: Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au>
    > Reply to: AstLinux List <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
    > Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2021 at 4:27 pm
    > To: AstLinux List <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
    > Subject: [Astlinux-users] Weird routing problem
    >  
    > Hi Group
    >  
    > I'm currently at a site that has a primary and failover WAN connection 
and a two LAN connections. The primary WAN connection has failed over to the 
secondary WAN connection however it is only working on one of the LAN 
interfaces and not the other. I can ping the interface address fine so its not 
an interface problem.
    >  
    > Does anyone have any idea why this would be happenning?
    >  
    > Regards
    > Michael Knill
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