Load balancing with failover for 3 WANs
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I have been trying to setup 3 WAN load balance with failover setup on pfsense, however due to the lack of tutorials online I think (actually, I know) my setup does not work properly. I found this tutorial (out of many online):
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-configure-dual-wan-load-balance-failover-pfsense-router/
It is for 2 WANs but I tried to make it work for 3 though.
This is my gateway configuration
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ym9x2ed85zi4x5y/gateways.png?dl=0And this is my firewall configuration
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3t8xionubafxwtf/firewall.png?dl=0The only way that load balance works is whenever i put the rule for load balance 1:1 on top of all the other rules. Which makes sense but failover should not work that way.
I understand that my configuration is wrong however I believe I am out of my depth setting up rules on the firewall. Any help is appreciated!
I have been using an Ubiquiti ER-X without any problems but I do want to switch to pfsense since it can do so much more. -
Check out the Netgate Multi WAN tutorial: https://www.netgate.com/resources/videos/multi-wan-on-pfsense-23.html
Besides that there is some more offical Netgate documentation:
https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/routing/multi-wan.html
https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/book/multiwan/index.htmlAlso consider https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/releases/2-4-4-new-features-and-changes.html
-Rico
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Thank you for your reply. It turns out the solution was simplier than I thought. I just put all 3 WANs in one gateway group with the same tier! They are all VDSL connections on the same wire to the cabinet.
