pfSense to Sonicwall with failover on Sonicwall
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I have a pfSense hosted behind a Datacenter/virtual IP. That is to say that the pfSense will only ever have one WAN IP, even if it fails over between ISP providers.
I have a few satellite locations with Sonicwall. Previously we leveraged Sonicwall to enter 2 peer gateway IP addresses per Phase 1 to cause rapid failover between ISPs.
pfSense does not seem to support multiple remote gateway entries like Sonicwall, so my question is how to best implement failover from the Sonicwall side?
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pfSense will always be: 1.1.1.1
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Sonicwall is: WAN1: 2.2.2.2 WAN2: 3.3.3.3
I will use dyndns if I have to, but I am not keen on it for several reasons, mostly time.
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System / Routing / Gateways
System / Routing / Gateway_groups
There is even a section on it in the pfSense book.
HINT: The monitor_ip on a gateway doesn't need to be "directly attached" ;)
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@Perforado thanks for the reply!
The dual gateway is on the Sonicwall, not the pfSense.
What I am wondering is how to best leverage Sonicwall failover to a site pfSense IP.