Out of subnet routing… (Failover IP setup)

FearNaBoinne

My provider put me up with a somewhat unusual, but otherwise functional routing config known as a failover IP…

I have an ESXi with pfSense on it (amongst other things, obviously), and two IP's (I'll be using different IP's, but for the sake of discussion, the setup is working identically):

Main IP (on ESXi mgmt)
195.195.195.195/24
Def GW:
195.195.195.1

Failover IP (on pfSense VM WAN NIC):
195.195.110.111/32 (!!!!)
No default gateway for this IP…

To make it work from the pfSense I had to manually perform:
route add -net 195.195.195.0/24 -link -iface em0
route add default 195.195.195.1

This works fine, I can access the pfSense WebGUI, it can access the internet, etc.

However there are a few challenges I do not know how to solve:

Getting the above two routes to stick (so they don't get deleted on every reload)
Getting pfSense to accept 195.195.195.1 as a valid gateway, because the UI keeps saying it's not in any interface's network

Any suggestions appreciated!

FearNaBoinne

After more searching (I already searched before posting here) I pretty much found most of the answer here:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=79141.msg431581#msg431581

mvda

you can manually add your gateway for the interface then edit the gateway and under advanced settings check "use non-local gateway" (pfsense 2.4.2)