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    Publishing web site with 2 firewalls

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      XBH
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      Hi,

      I'd appreciate input on the following:

      I've got 2 WAN connections (different ISPs, multiple IPs each) and 2 pfSense boxes. DHCP on LAN is configured to send 2 default gateways to clients for the outgoing traffic failover/load balancing.

      I'd like to have load balancing/failover for the incoming traffic as well. I've have set up port forwarding to the server I want to publish.

      This setup will work with one IP only as the IIS box sends responses to only one of the boxes. To make it work I can add a second NIC and configure each of the NICs on the IIS box to use different pfSense box as default gateway.

      I can do that on Windows machines (mostly VMs), but I also have couple of appliances where the manufacturer allows only single IP/NIC.

      I've tried playing with NAT Reflection, but to no avail. Having read documentation bit deeper I understand it may not be for the purpose I'm trying to use it for.

      Is there any other way to configure pfSense (and/or network routing table) other than the 2 NIC setup to achieve the above.

      Regards,

      Xbh

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        XBH
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        I understand reverse proxy could help, although I'm not sure the appliances in question would be happy with it.

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