Load balancing working, but failover on Opt1 not working
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I don't see how this would change anything, because, as far as I understand it, as long as the IPs are unique to each WAN connection then failover should work. Am I wrong in this assumption?
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In addition to needing 2 unique IP's of the ISP you need to create static routes to force the packets out the correct gateway. This has been covered in previous threads and in the load balancing docs @ doc.pfsense.com
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This is the load balancing doc you are refering to: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-Wan/Load-Balancing
I've read through it numerous times and nowhere in it does it mention anything about static routes.
Could you just give me an example of how I should implement these static routes? Do I need to set one up for WAN and one for Opt1?
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Woops, scratch that. I forgot that we now add the static routes behind the scenes.
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You only need a static route to the DNS-Server at OPT1. The DNS-Server at WAN is covered by the default gateway already. Make sure you use one DNS from WAN and one from OPT1 at system>general.
Oh, and btw, I already answered this question from you here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,3920.msg24880.html#msg24880 :P
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ok, thanks… thats working perfectly now with the static route set up to point Opt1 to the DNS server. Hoba, I think I got confused because later on in my original thread you told me to remove the static route, but this was because I had the DNS servers set up as my monitors.
All is working now perfectly.
It might be an idea to put a sticky at the top of this forum with the common questions that are asked (i.e. FTP access, failover, DNS setup...etc)
Or maybe add the detail about setting up a static route to the load balancer wiki?
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Or maybe add the detail about setting up a static route to the load balancer wiki?
I agree, we should add this to the doc and then create a new thread pointing to it and marking it sticky.
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I've added a paragraph "8.4 Setting up DNS for Load Balancing"
to http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-Wan/Load-BalancingHope it is understandable.
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Thanks sai!
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Nice work, thanks!