2 ADSL PPPoE lines… what's the best way to setup multi WAN?
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I have 2 ADSL PPPoE lines: 8000/600 and 2000/300. What are the steps to setup multi WAN in the good way?
I previously used a wiki but didn't work (I know I'm a bit silly, hehe). Please, be sensible.
Many thanks!!!
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Only one WAN connection can be PPPoE at this time. Static IP and DHCP connections are both supported as an extra WAN interface. This will not change in 1.0, but may in future versions.
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What exactly are you trying to do with the multiwan? Do you just want to divide different types of traffics? Or are you planning to loadbalance the both WANs?
pfSense supports only one PPPoE-WAN at the moment. This means you need a PPPoE-Modem-Router in front of your OPT-WAN that can be used as static gateway. Most PPPoE-Modems nowadays can be set to routermode instead of bridgemode as well. Forward everything from the modemrouter to your pfsense or enter the pfsense as DMZ-IP if this is an option in the modemrouter. The modemrouter then will do the dialin.
If you got both your WANs working this way you can create Rules at "Firewall>NAT Outbound-tab" and "Firewall>Rules LAN-tab" (look at the gateway-field at the bottom of the rules) to specify what traffic should go out which WAN.
If you are planning to do loadbalancing you need 2 modemrouters to be used with each of your WANs. pfSense needs static gateways to be able to loadbalance. Additionally to what we did above you need to create a Gateway-Pool at "Services>Loadbalancer". Put in both your modemrouters as gateways. For monitoring IPs enter a high availability IP somewhere near you (maybe your ISP-Gateway). Monitoring isn't implemented yet but after it gets implemented it will monitor the connection for availability and exclude a WAN temporarily from the pool on nonavailability.
Loadbalancing in pfsense works roundrobin new connections (old open connections will remain on the same WAN they were initiated -> "sticky states"). It won't reflect different WAN-Bandwidth like you have.
Finally there are 2 resources additionally describing the needed steps:
http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=OutgoingLoadBalancing
and
http://pfsense.blogspot.com/2005/06/multi-wan.htmlHolger
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What exactly are you trying to do with the multiwan? Do you just want to divide different types of traffics? Or are you planning to loadbalance the both WANs?
pfSense supports only one PPPoE-WAN at the moment. This means you need a PPPoE-Modem-Router in front of your OPT-WAN that can be used as static gateway. Most PPPoE-Modems nowadays can be set to routermode instead of bridgemode as well. Forward everything from the modemrouter to your pfsense or enter the pfsense as DMZ-IP if this is an option in the modemrouter. The modemrouter then will do the dialin.
If you got both your WANs working this way you can create Rules at "Firewall>NAT Outbound-tab" and "Firewall>Rules LAN-tab" (look at the gateway-field at the bottom of the rules) to specify what traffic should go out which WAN.
If you are planning to do loadbalancing you need 2 modemrouters to be used with each of your WANs. pfSense needs static gateways to be able to loadbalance. Additionally to what we did above you need to create a Gateway-Pool at "Services>Loadbalancer". Put in both your modemrouters as gateways. For monitoring IPs enter a high availability IP somewhere near you (maybe your ISP-Gateway). Monitoring isn't implemented yet but after it gets implemented it will monitor the connection for availability and exclude a WAN temporarily from the pool on nonavailability.
Loadbalancing in pfsense works roundrobin new connections (old open connections will remain on the same WAN they were initiated -> "sticky states"). It won't reflect different WAN-Bandwidth like you have.
Finally there are 2 resources additionally describing the needed steps:
http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=OutgoingLoadBalancing
and
http://pfsense.blogspot.com/2005/06/multi-wan.htmlHolger
Would you happen to be able to provide some screenshots of the relevant Loadbalancer, NAT and Rules pages?
Thanx. -
…it's time to do a tutorial for this I guess...volunteers? I have set this up with several people already at irc. nobody who wants to do it? ;)
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…it's time to do a tutorial for this I guess...volunteers? I have set this up with several people already at irc. nobody who wants to do it? ;)
Hi,
is enough to make LoadBalancing work /using round robin function/, configure only >Services>LoadBalancer? -
sure, just a basic setup wiht some introduction what is needed, maybe a small visio drawing. :)