Hi, JMP,
Thanks for the speedy reply! I really appreciate all the help you give here!
So, I looked at my system routing table, and indeed, the default route is set to the WAN gateway, as you said.
Is it possible to use gateway groups in the routing table of the router itself? The issue at hand here is I would like to be able to access my network via openvpn, even (perhaps especially) during failover mode when the main link is down.
However, the router needs to be able to open a connection to the computer requesting an openvpn connection, and I get an error saying 'no route to host xx.xx.xx.xx' thrown by open vpn during the openvpn handshake process.
So, if I could talk the router into using the gateway group instead of the default route, it would know how to route traffic out even when the WAN is down. There are a number of gateways that I see in the routing table (link#1, link#2…link#9) that I don't know the origin of; how they are defined, and how they do routing. Perhaps this is where I would look to send router traffic into the gateway group?
I believe my fundamental confusion here comes from not knowing where the distinction lies between typical routing done by the routing table and the pf system that does the bulk in and out routing that pfsense is so good at. Any help understanding this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
Dave