
User Guide 61
Changing Your Network Settings
Using the WAN Failover Setup Wizard
1 From the navigation bar, select Wizards.
2 Adjacent to Configure the automatic WAN failover capability of your Firebox Edge, click Go.
3 Use the instructions on the screens.
The WAN Failover Setup Wizard includes these steps:
Welcome
The first screen tells you about the wizard.
Select the secondary interface
Use this screen to set the secondary interface your Firebox X Edge uses.
Configure the broadband interface
If you use a broadband interface, select the method your ISP uses to get your IP address.
Identify the computers to connect
Type the IP addresses of computers to which the Firebox X Edge can connect.
The WAN Failover Setup Wizard is complete
You must restart your Firebox X Edge to activate the WAN Failover feature.
Using the Network page
1 From the navigation bar, select Network > WAN Failover.
The WAN Failover page appears.
2 Select the Enable failover using the Ethernet (WAN2) interface check box.
3 Type the IP addresses of the hosts to ping for the WAN1 (external) and WAN2 (failover) interfaces.
The Firebox X Edge will send pings to the IP addresses you type here. If pings to the host on that network are not
successful, the Edge starts the failover. You control the frequency of pings in the fields below.
4 Type the number of seconds between pings and the number of seconds to wait for a reply.
5 Type the maximum number of pings before time-out in the No Reply Limit field.
6 Type the number of successful pings that must be made before the Firebox X Edge uses the WAN1
interface again in the Ping replies needed for failback field.
If you are using a broadband connection for failover
If you selected to enable failover with an Ethernet connection on WAN2, select your configuration mode
from the drop-down list:
1 If your IP address is assigned automatically, select DHCP Client.
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