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    Setup for 2-pfsense loadbalance/failover?

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      feait
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      We have an installation with 2 3-port PFsense hardware boxes, connected with both PPPoE links to the same ISP - the setup looks like this.

      WAN1                                WAN2
            |                                      |
      –---------      sync (Opt1)  ------------
      |pfsense1 |-----------------| pfsense2 |
      -----------                        ------------
            |                                      |
            LAN1                                LAN2
            |                                      |
        ---+---------------------------+------

      Both pfSense routers are using PPPoE to the ADSL wan via bridge-mode ADSL modems.  I can figure out how to do failover from left to right using CARP (tested in VMware) but
      is there any tutorial/guide on how to setup CARP failover and inwards & outwards round-robin load balancing?  Can it be done with this type of setup or would we need pfSense hardware boxes each with 2 WAN links, a LAN link and a Sync(Opt1) link for CARP?  As pfSense only supports 1 PPPoE link per instance, this would mean some changes to the modems as well if each pfSense box had to support 2 WAN links.

      Any help or pointers to guides for this would be appreciated.

      Regards,
      Greg Hastings
      Systems Administrator
      FEA Ltd

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