Backup route with single WAN box?
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Hi everyone,
I have a simple fw running pfsense (LinITX APU 1D)
It has 3 NICs - one WAN, one LAN, one OPT1The WLAN is connected to a FTTH services using PPOE. However this sometimes fails and for those rare occasions I would like to use my BT ADSL service that I still have available.
Is there anyway I can use a static route or similar to route to the BT ADSL if the WAN is down?
eg;
FTT======-WAN pfsense -----------LAN--------BT ADSL Home 192.168.1.1.......................192.168.1.2 192.168.1.0/24Is there anyway to get the pfsense route to 192.168.1.2 if the WAN is down?
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Hello there! Yes you can do it as easy as configuring a few settings as described in the following link here you go
Get back to here if you couldn't get it working.
Good luck
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I had seen those config options, but they all refer to 2 WANs.
Can I do this with 1 WAN and 1 LAN though?
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Sure. Just add the gateway and choose the correct interface and there you go. When creating a gateway group you are free to choose any interface. For instance LAN interface. Thus you can choose WAN1 and a gateway which uses LAN as its outgoing interface. That being said it would be better if you connect both of your Internet-connected devices to the pfsense box.
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Are you using the OPT1 interface, if not use that you can rename it WAN2 or ADSL in the interfaces assignment page.
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You will have to setup PFsense for a dual WAN or configure a 2nd gateway on your workstations and edit your metric there.
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@nogbadthebad interesting. I can free up OPT1 and then make it WAN2 then follow the other suggestions for groups.
Excellent. I will give that a try.
Thanks
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@marvosa said in Backup route with single WAN box?:
You will have to setup PFsense for a dual WAN or configure a 2nd gateway on your workstations and edit your metric there.
And that is exactly what I did. Easy and it works!!
Thanks to everyone for your help and support