Virtual IP as gateway

[Lucas Rey]

Hello community, this is my first time with pfSense. I have a simple configuration to use pfSense as NAT and DHCP (I don't need firewall feature). So I have WAN and LAN interfaces correctly configured. Clients connected through pfSense can ping 8.8.8.8 and obliviously can reach the LAN interface (i.e. I can login into pfSense GUI).

Then, I configured a LAN VIP (type CARP), this will be used for High Avail configuration later, but for now I would like to test the VIP. Theorically, the clients should have the LAN VIP as gateway, but in this case I loose connections to WAN and LAN. Using the LAN IP I can ping the VIP, btw.

To recap, on pfSense I have
LAN: 192.168.6.1
VIP: 192.168.6.2

On client:
IP: 192.168.6.10
GW: 192.168.6.2

Could someone help me to understand what's wrong and why I can't use the VIP as gateway?

Thank you
Lucas

[Derelict]

You can.

Please post screen shots of what you have done, in particular the VIP and the LAN interface and the LAN firewall rules.

[Lucas Rey]

Thank you for reply. First of all, at this stage I'm in my notebook test environment and everything is on VMWare. So I'm trying to do something a little bit complicated.
I tried to move the VMWare ESXi to a real server, and, with the same configuration everything works as expected. So I don't want to complicate my life, even if I would like to know why with the below schema it doesn't work.

Btw, now I'm trying to undertsnad why if I setup the LAN VIP as DNS on client, I'm not able to resolve addresses. I already changed the Outgoing network interface to WAN VIP (under DNS Resolver configuration) but still not able to navigate from clients. If I setup DNS as 8.8.8.8 everything work as expected.

[Derelict]

No. I mean pfSense screenshots of what you have done.

And maybe start simple then get complicated.