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Peplink Balance Series

Recovery Retries

This setting specifies the number of consecutive successful ping/DNS lookup responses

that must be received before Peplink Balance treats a previously down WAN connection to

be up again.

By default, Recover Times is set to 3. For example, a WAN connection that is treated as

down will be considered to be up again upon receiving 3 consecutive successful ping/DNS

lookup responses.

Note

In case a WAN connection goes down, all of the WAN connections with non-Always-on Connection Type will also

be brought up until any one of higher priority WAN connections is up and found to be healthy. This design could

increase the overall network availability.

For example, if WAN1, WAN2 and WAN3 have the connection types of Always-on, Backup Priority Group 1 and

Backup Priority Group 2 respectively, when WAN1 goes down, WAN2 and WAN3 will also try to connect. If WAN3

is connected first, WAN2 will still be kept connecting. If WAN2 is connected, WAN3 will disconnect or abort making

connection.

Automatic Public DNS Server Check on DNS Test Failure

In case the health check method is set to DNS Lookup and checks failed, the Balance will automatically perform

DNS lookups on some public DNS servers. If the tests are success, it means the WAN may not be down but rather

the target DNS server became malfunctioned. You will see the following warning message on the Main page.