RT-AC68U dual WAN showing "cold-standby" and didn't fail over

sshanky · Dec 27, 2018

I thought I set up my dual wan properly, but last night when the primary WAN went down, the router didn't fail over. On checking, I noticed it was reporting "cold-standby":

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0h7casz1co1ic38/Screenshot 2018-12-27 10.15.54.png?dl=0

Here are the dual-wan settings:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yr150mi9kidx8th/Screenshot 2018-12-27 10.27.42.png?dl=0

ccjj · Sep 11, 2019

@sshanky Did you ever work out what caused this? Im stuck in the same situation and cant seem to make it do anything else.

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