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    Is pfSense team working on the failover issue?

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    • sensei-twoS
      sensei-two
      last edited by

      Hi,
      I was just wondering if the pfSense team is aware of the failover problem with their firewall, which many users are complaining about. As many have already experimented, pfsense doesn't switch to the default gateway when it gets back to work. I hope that they are already working on it.
      Thanks

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      • NogBadTheBadN
        NogBadTheBad @sensei-two
        last edited by

        @sensei-two Try looking here:-

        https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense

        Andy

        1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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        • sensei-twoS
          sensei-two @NogBadTheBad
          last edited by

          @nogbadthebad said in Is pfSense team working on the failover issue?:

          @sensei-two Try looking here:-

          https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense

          Thanks, but a bit hard to find out among all those articles if they are already working on this issues.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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            What exactly is "the failover problem" in your case? That is extremely vague.

            Failover works fine for most people, but there are always edge/corner cases that don't work as well as others.

            There are several issues potentially related to failover scenarios that we've fixed in 23.01: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/23-01.html

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            • sensei-twoS
              sensei-two @jimp
              last edited by sensei-two

              @jimp
              I read on this very forum, and elsewhere as well that many users have the same problem, that is, it doesn't switch back to the main WAN when it gets back to work again and is available. Of course, it is not always the case, but unfortunately I was one of those who strumble upon it. As you said, there are always edge/corner cases that don't work as well as others.
              For the time being, I run pfSense in a virtual environment , and as a test, I also installed and run OPNsense in the same scenario, then I set failover up on it and it worked smoothly. Anyway, I want to continue using pfsense since I like it most, but this issue can be a drawback.
              Thanks

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