Hi, Thanks but that's not going to help, the whole point of this feature request is that if a VPN connection doesn't work for a device (for any reason) you can just move the LAN cable to another port to try with a different VPN connection - if the MAC of device for instance determines which VPN to use then it would always be linked to the failed VPN connection, pointless. Only way then to fix the issue is to have multiple gl.inet routers pre configured to have to swap between (like now but expensive and wasteful) or have to login to the router to change settings (way more hassle than should be needed plus if used by a non technical family member etc they wouldn't have a clue how to).
Since v4.8 was meant to bring these features and didn't do we have any idea when they will be added? Will still come as part of a v4.8.1 soon for instance or is this miss indefinitely delayed with no new expected timeline?
This request was to make things as easy as possible for the majority of your customers, with up to 4 VPNs setup (one per LAN port) you get four chances from just one router before the hassle of fetching a device to have to login and start messing about with settings, pure bliss for the non technical family members who can easily understand moving a physical LAN cable between 4 ports on a Flint - the chance of all 4 VPN connections failing at the destination end is highly remote.
Gl.inet seem to be making some odd choices on where to invest their time to develop ever more niche features at the expense of things almost every user (technical or not) would greatly benefit from. Remember that for every one user asking in the forum for new options to do the latest specialist use case they just dreamt up there at least 50 times that amount who aren't technical enough to join the forum and make their ask to just keep it simple, forever chasing complexity and cluttering the GUI will almost certainly lose more repeat business than it could ever gain. I guess it's good that new features are being added in the gl.inet firmware but the whole point of the gl.inet GUI was that it was very very easy to understand, from feedback of others (and what I've seen of v4.8) the consensus is it just looks intimidatingly overcomplex, for most of gl.inet's users that is entirely counterproductive.
Of the ten or so other gl.inet users I've shown v4.8 beta to the majority have said they'd never install 4.8 ever (or any later versions) unless the VPN section gets a serious redesign for usability. Not one of them could accurately guess where traffic would now route to (understandable since there's a fair few experienced gl.inet users in the v4.8 thread who are really struggling to understand what/why gl.inet built, average non techy user has no chance).
At this rate when VLANs eventually appear those who would benefit the most will miss out because they can't opt out of all the very very messy counterintuitive mish mash of VPN setup changes that comes with it.
v4.8 desperately needs a GUI usability redesign to hide many of the niche features behind 'advanced' menus to clean things up and make the basics easier to understand so average users aren't left behind. I very highly recommend gl.inet to take another look at my mock ups for simplicity (to further prove how easy this could be for end users I did another mock up and even managed to simplify it again!) - it is so easy to understand and uses GUI layout all users are already familiar with, all relevant settings are on one page and literally impossible to get confused what the end result would be. By all means provide your new exotic niche routing options but PLEASE just give us a 'basic mode' VPN page like the above where we can very easily choose OPENVPN_1 -> ALL TRAFFIC -> LAN_1, OPENVPN_2 -> ALL TRAFFIC -> LAN_2 etc, it simply doesn't need to be more complicated than that for 90%+ of your users (not 90%+ of active forum members obviously, I mean the REAL end users).
When a small v0.1 upgrade requires a networking course/retraining just for most existing users to understand how to do what they were previously able to do easily it has most certainly gone in the wrong direction. I know many friends and family that I recommended gl.inet devices to because of how easy they were to use, there's no way I'm being lumbered with having to support v4.8 in current form for them, would be like working a second job!! Sorry for the long post but it's important the wishes of gl.inet's existing non techy users aren't ignored, better to catch this whilst still in beta and improvements can be made.
Please let me know when this feature request is possible and I'd still really like to give it a try even if I wouldn't dare let anyone else I know near it. Thanks
