Questions and issues with the built in load balancing feature

[JeffWDH]

Unfortunately, if your ISPs provide dynamic addresses (ie. DHCP or PPPoE), you can’t use failover routes as they are currently.

I requested expanding the feature to support this but it didn’t seem to get any traction.

WAN load-balancing source/destination group support

Fair enough, I’m not a huge fan of the current loadbalancing implementation anyway when used purely for failover. I have an idea for a simpler way forward for such scenarios. In my use case I only require a failover (4G) to be used only when the primary connection fails. I am wondering if the new static route path monitoring could be extended to allow for a more bare bones failover solution. This would require the addition of automatically grabbing the next hop from various interfaces (via DHCP…