Using Two Separate pfSense WAN Ports and One Gateway On VLAN For Failover Issue
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Hello Everyone,
I have two instances of pfSense 2.3.1-RELEASE (amd64) running as VM's on two separate ESXi 6.0 boxes and one gateway (Charter cable modem) as my WAN. Currently, I must physically move the WAN network cable from one ESXi box to the other if I need to use the other instance of pfSense. In an attempt to eliminate this hassle, I connected my cable modem as well as one of my pfSense instance's WAN ports to the same VLAN ports (with tagging) that I setup on my Ubiquiti Tough Switch (I left the other pfSense WAN cable unplugged for now). I power cycled the cable modem and saw that pfSense obtained an IP address on it's WAN port; however, the pfSense WAN's IP this time appeared to be the common: 192.168.. instead of the typical: 75.139.. that I normally see. Unfortunately I did not have any internet access (could not ping 8.8.8.8 or access any websites). I was not able to ping the cable modem from my laptop either but I could ping it from the pfSense web interface. Has anyone successfully set something similar like this up or am I going about this the wrong way? I thought it might be some setting Charter enabled in the modem that prevents it from working with this setup but I'm not sure. Any help or better suggestions are always appreciated!