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    Connect 2 wan 1 from 1 nic

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      uzairali001
      last edited by uzairali001

      I have installed pfsense on physical machine which has 2 nic so I am using one for wan and another one is for lan. Wan is connected with pppoe connection which is working fine but now I want to connect another pppoe connection and combine them with load balancing but I only have one nic. I was doing this easily when my pfsense is installed on VMware by bridging same nic twice but how can I do something similar in pfsense

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      • JKnottJ
        JKnott
        last edited by

        One possibility would be to use VLANs and a managed switch to separate the 2 connections.

        PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
        i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
        UniFi AC-Lite access point

        I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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          uzairali001
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          Can't pfSense handle this? I don't want to use any hardware since I'm already using PC as a router so if pfSense can't do this, I will install exsi on PC

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          • GrimsonG
            Grimson Banned
            last edited by Grimson

            Just add another PPP interface and choose your WAN NIC as the link interface, pretty simple. Do a bit of RTFM so you understand the basics: https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/book/interfaces/interfacetypes-ppps.html

            Edit: This of course works only if you have one physical line, if you have multiple physical lines (so multiple modems if you use DSL for example) you'll need a switch anyway.

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              uzairali001 @Grimson
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              @grimson Thanks, I do read manual but in this case I don't know where to start so I asked question here and yes I only have 1 physical line (at-least for now), I will add quad gigabit ethernet nic to my PC next month.

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