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    Looking to set up CARP, have a few questions

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      althornin
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      I understand the normal setup for CARP requires multiple IPs on both the WAN and LAN side.
      I have that, but not in the "normal" sense:
      My ISP provides me with a /30 (so 2 useable IP addresses, one of which is my pfsense WAN IP and the other is its gateway IP)for my public IP, with an additional /28 (in a different address space) routed to my pfsense WAN IP.

      Example with numbers (yes, the 10.x.x.x subnet isn't public, these are just examples):
      pfSense WAN IP: 10.1.1.42/30
      WAN_GW: 10.1.1.41

      Additional External IP Addresses: 10.3.67.160/28

      How can I set up CARP in this situation?

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        cmb
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        You can't. Your interconnect with your ISP must be a /29. They should be willing to switch you over to that, it's not an uncommon request since basically every router/firewall redundancy protocol requires it.

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          cmb
          last edited by

          also make sure they're routing your internal subnet to a CARP IP so it goes to the current master firewall.

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            althornin
            last edited by

            @cmb:

            You can't. Your interconnect with your ISP must be a /29. They should be willing to switch you over to that, it's not an uncommon request since basically every router/firewall redundancy protocol requires it.

            Ok, thats what I thought.
            I'll see about getting that changed.

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