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    Wan Gateway + OpenVPN Failover

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      bbicudo
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      Maybe you guys can help me here...

      I have one PFSense on one of our buildings (1.6km from where i work). Both buildings are connected trhough optical fiber, so we're in a LAN.

      Both buildings have a WAN link from different ISPs.

      We have a recurrent problem where our fiber keeps being broken by high trucks, so once a month or two we have to fix it, and in the meanwhile we lose our LAN connection, so we can't reach servers on the other side.

      I installed another PFSense on the second building, and configured a Site-to-Site VPN (OpenVPN).

      I then set-up a gateway for my LAN network, in order to keep track of it, and defined a gateway group for failover with my LAN as Tier1 and OpenVPN as Tier2.

      When i put LAN down, VPN won't assume tier 1 to interconnect both networks. Am i doing something wrong? Maybe it's impossible to achieve or my scenario is not suitable for such configuration?

      If someone could help on this i'd be grateful.

      Ps.: Sorry for the bad english.

      Thanks everyone!

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