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      querichelli last edited by

      Hello there.

      I use 2 different WANs on my PFSense.

      In example below, WAN1 is my default and WAN2 my optional.

      I need to keep WAN1 working, but test WAN2 with ping test for 1hour+, is it possible?

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      • KOM
        KOM last edited by

        Yes.  You use policy routing via firewall rules to determine which traffic goes out which gateway.

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        • johnpoz
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator last edited by

          You can have as many wans as you want to be honest all active at same time if you so desire.  If you want to be able to ping wan2 then setup firewall rule on its interface to allow you to ping it.

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          • NogBadTheBad
            NogBadTheBad last edited by

            You can specify the source address from the cli :-

            [2.4.3-RELEASE][admin@pfsense]/root: ping -S 172.16.3.1 8.8.8.8
            PING 8.8.8.8 ( 8.8.8.8 ) from 172.16.3.1: 56 data bytes
            64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=11.582 ms
            64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=11.318 ms
            ^C
            –- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
            2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
            round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 11.318/11.450/11.582/0.132 ms
            [2.4.3-RELEASE][admin@pfsense]/root:

            Andy

            1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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              mlsbraves last edited by

              @querichelli:

              I need to keep WAN1 working, but test WAN2 with ping test for 1hour+, is it possible?

              Whats the purpose of the Test? If your wanting to test WAN2 specifically for devices behind pfSense than the policy route via firewall rule as suggested would be the way to go. If you just wanting to see the quality of your WAN2 from ping results than I would suggest changing the monitoring IP for that gateway to 8.8.8.8 and let pfSense monitor this for you. This way you can see the current quality of your WAN2 when you login and also check the history of that link by going to Status –> Monitoring. If you haven't done so already, I would suggest doing this for WAN1 as well. In order for failover to work properly this should have already been done but maybe this isn't the purpose for your test.

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