If pfSense runs on VMware, and you turn off VMWare, how do you route the internet then? Is your PC then directly connected to DSL?

pfSense monitors when WANs go down and up, and takes action to "failover" various features that support being attached to a gateway group. Dynamic DNS is one of those. By "failover" for Dynamic DNS, it means the IP address of the Dynamic DNS name is updated with the provider to equal the public IP address of the highest tier gateway that is up. There is pfSense code to do all that, you do not have to "homingbeacon" or any other thing on a client behind pfSense.

my is current set to yes for Load Balancing Allow default gateway switching If the link where the default gateway resides fails switch the default gateway to another available one.

When "none" is selected, the DNS queries will all go out the default gateway. If that goes down, then no DNS. You can enable "default gateway switching" as long as all your WANs (interfaces with a gateway set) lead to the public internet - then the system will switch to another gateway and DNS will "failover". Choosing a particular gateway for each DNS server means you don't need to use "default gateway switching" and spreads the DNS query load between WAN links.

i found the problem it was from the modem itself. what i did, i just put on first the modem. when it went normal (the led lights in the modem), i put on the pfsense box. and check the gateway if it is both online in the dashboard. yes. it is really weird that my dsl are stuck with "5" subnet and could not change anything with the lan ip of the router. by the way, thank you guys

@dellpe: I will try and explain the issue I'm having and hopefully someone will be able to tell me if I have some thing wrong in my config. What i'm trying to do in the most simplest of terms is route the native cisco vlan 1. I have included a diagram showing the basics of the current setup. I have a pfSense box setup with vlans and trunking talking to a cisco WS-C2960S-24TS-L switch. I can route and use all the vlans except vlan1. The final goal is to use the Meraki AP to assign Vlans according to the SSID that is used. I know how to make this work but it requires the Meraki AP to communicate toe the Meraki cloud controller via the management Vlan. Since I can not change the default management  on the Meraki ap from vlan1 i need to make it route to the internet. That is the overall idea, here is the configuration so far. On pfSense WAN => em0 = comcast modem, LAN => bce0 = goes to a network for testing access not part of vlans, bce1 => cisco switch as trunk port, OPT1 => VLAN1, OPT2 => VLAN2, OPT3 => VLAN3, and so on. I solved this.Just one litter error in the configuration

The specific rule for traffic to gateway WAN2 has to go above the general rule for traffic to "Balancing" gateway group. Post your gateways, gateway groups and LAN rules and we can check.

When I went to go take a screenshot of the firewall rules I noticed a typo in the IP address. It's working perfectly fine now. Your suggestions were what needed to happen I simply made a typographical error.

Any help? the closest thing i found was: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=24410.0 But it lacks any useful details

I'm still trying to get the Dual Wan switch over working correctly. New connections go directly to the Satellite after midnight, but existing connections stay connected to the DSL. If i reset the show state then all connections are moved. How do i schedule the states to be reset at midnight and 5am? Thanks

@phil.davis: I don't have any multi-WAN pptp to test with. But I know there is some issue with being able to add rules when all the connections are down, like if you are trying to setup the system before connecting any WAN cables. The system does not know whether the gateway group is IPv4 or Ipv6 when none of the gateways have an IP address yet. Are all the WAN links down at the moment? (I am expecting this is not the problem, and the screenshots all look good, so others with ideas about this setup please also give suggestions!) thank you phil for help it works after wan got ipv4 address and i can see multiwan group but only two or 3 lines get connected and the others down i have 7 router pppoa to ppptp relay , esxi 5.1 , pfsense 2.03 and 2.1 and i installed vmware tools and use vmnet3 10G ethernet and 100/1000 switch all my routers connected to 100/1000 switch and the last port to esxi ethernet port pfsense 2.0.3 all good >> 7 lines connected multilan and failover all ok i can also access all my routers with manual outpond only one thing is missing >>> i have to connect pptp client manually sometimes  or to reboot modemes Which are down so i setup pfsense 2.1 to avoid this problem but 2 or 3 lines connected and others down " connected lines not stable " i ask if i can do any thing to make these lines auto connected under 2.03 or 2.1 i ask also if i can make any advanced pptp configuration to avoid this problem here Electricity goes off , back again  and sometimes my ups empty so esxi restart and this problem happen waiting help and sorry for my bad language

Hi, These are my settings s and what it is going on. I have followed pfSense documentation. My deployment is based on ESXi and pfSense is using one physical appliance fro both WAN connections. Kind regards Greg [image: pfsense.jpg] [image: pfsense.jpg_thumb]