@Friederich said in Scratch Setup:

would the fallback/Failover connection occure automatically tho if the CARP is setup

Yes. Clients will be able to reconnect to the same end point, the CARP VIP, automatically. They just will be disconnected at failover and have to reconnect.

If you see backup VIPs on both nodes one may have been demoted. It's far more common to both as master when there's some layer2 issue between them.

That's not going to affect anything at 1G rates.

What is that port linked at on the modem? It's a 10Gbase-T port?

As I explained I would expect to find no way to set that adapter to 1G. It will only link correctly at 10G. That fact it works at all though seems to imply it probably is linked at 10G....

@gertjan Hey there! Thank you for taking the time to reply!
I figured out what happened after taking another stab at it. Manually assigning the ports did the trick. I was able to setup the router after that.

@shaungehring This sounds similar to an arp cache issue we had. We could not connect, ping it, then all was good. The network team did something to the arp cache on a switch to resolve it. I do not have details as it was many years ago.
Maybe that will get you in the right direction.

@wizardofwhere I think you have the pfsense plugged into the wrong place. I would have modem, to pfsense wan, pfsense lan to switch, vpn is going to take some work because that also needs wan access. You probably need the linksys plugged into same switch and rules on the pfsense to forward traffic for the vpn.

SOLVED:

I wish I knew why for those that follow after. I changed a few things at once so I'm not sure if one of or combination of them was responsible or the fix.

I turned off TCP/IP on the WAN NIC. I rebooted the modem and router at the same time with cables connected.

@NollipfSense @tompark
ok so here are the results of my efforts last night until 0130!
I am currently unable to get my plex to work.
the plex server is on the server 192.168.1.251 and I am trying to access it via the tv firestick. can anyone help?

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@greedj Thank You!

Primary I mean running pfSense only on bare metal servers w/ 2 CPUs. No any reason to run virtualization because of highloading, even more: better to make HA cluster of pfSense (with two(2) independent online-interactive UPS - each to one of server’s power supply, and more than 2 uplinks to power provider).

Glad you have it working now. ☺

-Rico