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    [ FO / LB ] Default GW ?

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      chocoboss
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      Hi folk, I have a little question, but fisrt I will present you my setup :

      Load balancing group is ok, no real problem for configuration.

      It seems to work with loadbalancing :

      But don't know why I can not unset default route, is that normal ?

      Every time I unstick default getway boom it automaticly reset as default.

      This does't seems to be a problem for load balancing but I think it will be for fail-overanyone here get a solution ? Or maybe I am wrong ?

      PS : I already stick "Enable default gateway switching"in "system / advanced / Miscellaneous" also if you don't understand don't hesitate to tell me since I don't have perfect english ( I'm french )

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        pf123user
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        I have had issue with failover and also do not understand what changes I need to make. I also have "enable gw switching" checked in System, Advanced, Miscellaneous. For reasons unknown, when I lose my default GW WAN, I need to manually change default gw for failover to properly take place.

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          luckman212 LAYER 8
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          @chocoboss:

          But don't know why I can not unset default route, is that normal ?
          Every time I unstick default getway boom it automaticly reset as default.

          There is no such thing as having "no default route" using the GUI in pfSense AFAIK.  The default gw would only affect traffic originating from the firewall itself as long as you are using Gateway groups (Policy-based Routing). So if you uncheck your default gw it will assign another gw as your default.  This is expected and normal behavior.

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