Need some help, 2 box of pfsense
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Here is the situation.
I got 2 box of pfsense. Both of the consists of 5 nic. 4 wan and 1 lan. Basically, I need to do load balance on 7 wans.
So i got an idea like this:
1st box just do normal load balancing of 4 wans and 1 lan.
the 1st box lan will be connected to the 2nd box wan.
the 2nd box wan2 wan3 wan4 will connect to the internet.But 1 thing, how to configure the 1st box to redirect everything to 2nd box. All the traffic shaping, firewall rules, port forward will be done in the 2nd box. The 1st box just do load balancing on the 1st 4 wans.
Anyone can giv me an idea on how to do 7 wan load balance with 2 box of pfsense. Thanks.
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Waiting a whole 4 hours between initial post and impatient chaser - not going to win you friends. Remember, people help you because they want to. Acting like you're entitled to a response in a given timeframe will make people ignore you.
I'd strongly suggest you read the posts in the Multi-WAN forum. You'd also want to post a network diagram of what you're thinking, because your description doesn't make sense to me.
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It will cost you much more in time trying to get the load balancing "even", (not to mention potential multi-NAT and routing annoyances), than to just buy some dual or quad port NICs.
Not to mention if you're needing so much bandwidth one can assume you're running something fairly important and you really need a redundant failover solution anyway.
So rather than trying to daisy-chain your pfSense servers, instead set them up as a CARP cluster using qty-4 quad-port NICs, (2 for each server). I.e. pull out all but one of the single-port NICs in both servers, so you have qty-9 ports total per server. Then configure them as a standard CARP failover, (the 9th port is used for CARP sync). Et voila', "normal" load balancing plus redundancy and no headaches.
Actually could/should justify qty-3 quad-port per server so you some spare ports for future use, DMZ, etc.
