Disabling PF and NAT
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There is an old thread that mentions disabling pf will also disable Multi-WAN.. I am assuming this has nothing to do with CARP and redundant firewalls? Just multiple ISP connections?
Thank you in Advance.
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Why would the disabling of pf prevent multiple wans? It would prevent the use of firewall rules to make routing decisions is all.
Are you talking about this thread?
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=32847.0There are lots of routers that that have multiple wans. But how traffic flows to these different wans would have to be made via pure routing decision vs a firewall rule.
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I agree, it should not matter since I only have one provider and I am wanting to purely route.
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pf is required for Multi-WAN the way most people use it – using gateway group and policy routing with gateway groups.
Multi-WAN without pf could still be possible in some cases. Specifically: Default gateway switching or having routing protocol to make the decision of which WAN to use.