• PfSense behind multiWAN router slow

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    @blackbrayn: Just a guess , but are you by chance doing NAT twice? once behind the multiwan router and once after pfsense? This is the only thing i can think right now that will maybe "break" the load balancing done on the multi-wan router. Sorry for seeming to drop off the planet; school got busy, and then March break happened. I was able to go back in to do some testing yesterday. I am doing double NAT, which I understand can raise issues with VPN. However that doesn't seem to be the problem here. Disabling NAT on pfSense made no difference to the speed tests: same results with and without NAT. However: Something bizarre is going on, and I need to do more testing. I'm getting the same results with and without NAT, but suddenly they're much better than before. Previously I was seeing much worse performance behind pfSense and now that's gone. I don't know whether that's because most users have been gone for a week, or whether it's not the Olympics (less video streaming on the Bell network) or what. THeo
  • BGP Lookup Tool

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    W3M is another tool that can download that web page. I just tried it now and it seems to download the 30 prefixes as listed on the page. http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
  • Inbound Udp Load balance

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  • Packets coming and going back to the WAN interface

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    Hello, Finally after my vacation I reinstalled from a new installation my pfsense and began to setup the NAT for the routing. And now it's working.  ;D Thank you for your support. Julian
  • 3500+ ms in ping command

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    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?
  • New to Pfsense

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    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.
  • Mutil WAN failover with Squid and Squid guard

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    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.
  • Pinning DNS servers to gateways important?

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    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.
  • SIP trunk multi wan state not flushed - issues - Solution?

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  • Same subnet but different gateway

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    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
  • Issue Routing Certain Ports

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  • Network problem

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    @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
  • MultiWAN + static routes through WAN2

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    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.
  • Issues using nat on multiple wan setup

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  • How to force a host to use a ONLY different the second WAN connection

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    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.
  • Route Destination through external proxy

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

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    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
  • Need a hand with a route issue

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  • How to delegate IPv6 prefix to "subrouters"?

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  • Multiwan pptp clients works only with 2.0.3

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    @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
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