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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Routing and Multi WAN
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      icedutah
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      I want to use 2 WAN links but not for load balancing. I want the backup link to become live only if the main WAN link is down. Is this possible in Pfsense?

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        hoba
        last edited by

        Not yet but we already talked about that. Don't expect that before pfSense 1.1 though.
        Atm you can do loadbalancing and/or policy based routing with linkfailure detection (link will be excluded from pool when down).

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          scarpy
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          I also need to have the BACKUP function on PFSense!!
          What would be VERY interesting to me is this:

          I need to NAT my LAN IP addresses in different ways depending on which WAN is in use.
          I mean:

          My LAN is 10.0.0.0/24

          My WAN1 is 192.168.1.0/24 (PFSense NIC is 192.168.1.1)

          My WAN2 is 192.168.2.0/24 (PFSense NIC is 192.168.2.1)

          My default wan is WAN1. I want to use NAT to change each ip from 10.0.0.x to 192.168.1.x
          When my default wan (WAN1) is down, PFSense must use WAN2 and must nat each ip
          from 10.0.0.x to 192.168.2.x

          Thanks in advance for any help.

          Bye,
          Alex

          scarpy is:
          CCNA Cisco Certified Network Administrator
          CNAI Cisco Network Academy Instructor
          MCSE Microsoft Certified System Engineer

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            hoba
            last edited by

            As I said, this is not yet implemented. Patches accepted.

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