Please use search http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?action=search key words "Multiple WAN DHCP" = http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,8717.0.html

Did you find any solution for your problem? I remember, when I first tried loadbalancing in March, I did not have problems with youtube. So who changed anything, youtube or I? I changed a lot due to other problems….

Martin

@GruensFroeschli:

So you basically want OpenVPN failover.
This is not possible through the gui.

You could search the forum for other threads that deal with failover of services on pfSense itself.
I know there are such threads around that dont deal with OpenVPN but lead to the same thing.

ok but another example, i cant list available package on the pfsense interface since the default gateway is wrong and output traffic is no longer routed.
is there any reason to not switch the default gateway to the current available connection ?

Yes.

If you want to make full use of Bittorrent you also might want to forward the port from both WAN's to you Client.
–> Other clients can connect to you on both WANs.

To answer that I flushed my states then changed my first LAN rule so that all my pings and trace routes (All ICMP traffic) went out my backup interface flushed my states again and bugger me it is almost identical, It even has the same IP as the first hop - the IP of my WAN modem?

I’m confused.

Usually i have seen one-way satellites to operate with a proxy application(meaning that the proxy application achieves redirecting of traffic) since you need to tell somehow the satellite ISP that you need this file downloaded and they would schedule it and send you the link. This applications are specific to the ISP's afaik so i do not see how pfSense can go in the middle of this or at least achive this.

Otherwise i would be curious to how this all works?

i think the adl modems can be the 'cheap' routers itself.

i have a setup like this (3 adsl modems) and ive put them into router mode, its working ok.

other way to solve this would be to have mpd aggregate the speed of the ppp links - if the provider is friendly enought to help… but i dont know if pfsense mpd config can do this currently...

Hi there,

Right I have read your question a couple of times and I now see (with your help) where I went wrong.

For some reason web browsing works fine with either wan disconnected but I can only ping Google with WAN connected and I get a timeout using only the Backup, strange!

Also I still don’t understand how the three load balance rules work, If I have a dead link in all three rules how does it know which one to use?

I will play some more while I'm feeling brave.

Cheers for your help

Thank you :) I decided to add two more ethernet cards and now is working like a charm.

well, it took me a while but i finally figured it out.

the problem lies with the nic (dlink dfe-520tx). i put my OPT1 interface on the intel 10/100 Pro nic and it worked flawlessly, while the WAN on the DFE-520TX failed.

i have yet to replace the dlink nic (in the process of getting another intel 10/100), but i dont foresee any problems.

as for the the dhcp issue, i disabled the wan on the wrt54gl router and connected the pfsense LAN interface to one of the wrt ports, making it behave as a bridge. now all my pcs get their ip from the pfsense box.

i still have some work to do: port forwarding, openvpn, i want to be able to address the machines by hostname instead of ip, etc.

i'm attaching a network diagram for future reference.

none use dmz

On my wag200
DHCP Server 192.168.101.10 - 192.168.101.20 (wireless clients)
DMZ IP 192.168.101.100

On my pfSense opt1
Static
IP 192.168.101.100/24
Gateway 192.168.101.1
Tick "Disable the userland FTP-Proxy application"

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/MultiWanVersion1.2

just work your way through it and try and copy it as much as you can, the screenshots are helpful in setting up multi wan, its not too hard you just have to do the settings correctly

Thank you very much for the help. I'll start on this tomorrow and see how far I can get. I can test over the weekend and at night since no one is on the phones.

Looks very in-depth so am hoping I'll at least get some basics going.

Thanks again.

Mike

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7001.0.html

No takers on this yet?  :(

Am I doing something out of the ordinary? surely someone out there in PFSense land has a setup similar to this?

Do know another firewall that can do that?

We need those 5 cents to complete the dollar!

You can always start a bounty or sponsor it.

Run the wizard using interfaces WAN and LAN for up/downstream. Make upstream the real upstream bandwidth of WAN (2 Mbps, maybe a bit less to not be too close to the edge) and downstream the sum of all the WANs downstream ( 2+4+1 Mbps, again, maybe a bit less). You also might want to do some speedtest as I have seen connections often not having the advertised bandwidth.

You can still use loadbalancing/failover pools and whatever in this setup.

I was wondering if any of the devs could take another look at this, as I believe there could be a bug causing this issue.

I have complied with the appropriate setup for this kind of network and this is still causing me issues.

If this can't be resolved over the forum, I'm planning on swapping the WAN's so that the backup ADSL2+ connection becomes WAN2 and I use a half bridged setup.

Again, thanks for all your help so far, I really hope we can work this one out, as I don't believe I'm doing anything out of the ordinary.

Thanks