Two Pfsense each with Seprate Internet routing each other
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actually i am new in pfsense and the couple of friends are working together to learn and use each other internet from far as i told you earlier.
my apartment is about 2000ft away from my other friend. we have lurned how to splice OFC cable and it was fun.
now as i was reading about pfsense multi wan and fail-over i need to create two way traffic between us.
my other neighbor already sharing my internet.
I have earlier develop a VPN between me and my another fried who lives in Chicago. I am luring a lot but some time its not that easy as tech like you can do.
when can I expect the screen short?
Thank you again.
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Sorry did not see your response.. I will try and fire up 2.3.4p1 today and get your screenshots. But to be honest have already given you all the steps..
johnpoz,
Any news?
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Ah makes more sense now ;)
I am firing up the VMs now - I have pf1.site1.lan up and running on 2.3.4p1, installing pf2.site2.lan and then can start taking screenshots..
So this is how I have duplicated your setup
pf1.site1.lan
em2 wan: 192.168.9/24 (site 1 internet)
em0 lan: 192.168.0.1/24
em1 transit: 192.168.1.1/30pf2.site2.lan
em2 wan: 192.168.2/24 (site 2 internet)
em0 lan: 192.168.10.1
em1 transit: 192.168.1.2/30I want to get the the 2 pfsense up and running and then take vm snapshots, etc. So can roll them back real easy to new.. If you need me to walk through different steps, etc. Sorry taken a bit but got side tracked ;) pf2 is almost done its updating to 2.3.4p1 now.. But I have to go out for my morning walk, and then get ready for work here soon. But now that have them up and running configure your setup from work and take screenshots, etc. So for sure later today have pretty walk through for you…
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Ok created the firewall rule for transit and now pf1 and pf2 can ping each other over the transit. I would hope you have gotten this far?
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screen shots.
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That is as far as I got before I had to go to work.. At work now - need to finish up some morning stuff.. Then will finish it.. So do you have your transit up and working.. Can each pfsense ping the other pfsense via the transit network you set up?
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Ok - so now I have created the gateways pointing to the other pfsense transit IP..
See attached. Notice I set ipv6 on each wan of pfsense to none. This is only ipv4 setup and figured just remove ipv6 to have it look cleaner.
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So now I have created the routes on each pf pointing to the network on the other pfsense.
See attached.
So there is a machine on each network 192.168.0.100 (site1) and 192.168.10.100 (site2)
So you can see they can ping the other machine on the other network, and if you do a trace route. They hit their pfsense, go across the transit and hit the other side 192.168.1.1 or .2 depending on the direction your going.
I will now create the gateway group and create the rules to allow if your local internet is down to use the other sides internet..
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Ok..
So I created gateway groups on each side.
I used packetloss or high latency.. as the failover method.
I then added rule on the lan to allow the other network using default routing.
Then on the default lan rule changed its gateway to use the failover group.
Now when I simulate a failure on the site2 wan it goes out the site1 connection - which you can see from the traceroutes.
Any questions just ask..
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Sorry did not see your response.. I will try and fire up 2.3.4p1 today and get your screenshots. But to be honest have already given you all the steps..
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huh?? Dude I have posted all kinds of screenshots showing all the different steps.
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I am really thankful once again for the efforts you extended for me I will use these instructions and post the after successful implementation.
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I followed all the instructions and images you have described but sofar am unable to get the internet on pf2.
pfI can access both pfsense but no internet on 192.168.10.0/24 network (the wan is down on pf2 [192.168.10.0/24])
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I followed all the instructions and images you have described but sofar am unable to get the internet on pf2.
I can access both pfsense (pf1 & pf2) but no internet on 192.168.10.0/24 network (the wan is down on pf2 [192.168.10.0/24])
pf1 wan is up and working fine.
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"(the wan is down on pf2 [192.168.10.0/24])"
well that would be a problem now wouldn't it.. How would it work if the wan is down?? That has nothing to do with the transit or connectivity between the pfsenses, etc.
Why do you have 2 transits?
What sort of wan do you have that it doesn't show an interface assigned to it for speed and duplex, etc.
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The wan is down since morning on site 2 (pf2) but the site 1 has the internet (pf1) wan is working
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"(the wan is down on pf2 [192.168.10.0/24])"
well that would be a problem now wouldn't it.. How would it work if the wan is down?? That has nothing to do with the transit or connectivity between the pfsenses, etc.
Why do you have 2 transits?
What sort of wan do you have that it doesn't show an interface assigned to it for speed and duplex, etc.
i made another Transit just to see if i have made something wrong.
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if one wan on any pf goes down wouldn't it takes over to other pf wan which is up through transit?
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what should I do?
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Yeah if you set it up like that.. But yours doesn't seem down - it was pending, and looks like you removed the interface from it or something?
And why do you have 2 transits? How did you configure your failover? You should simulate it being down by blocking ping at pfsense gateway, that is how I did it. Or mark the gateway down. But you should validate that your can talk to each others networks and go out your local wan before trying to test the failover, etc.
