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    Loadbalance with multiple WAN IPs

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      navu
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      Hello. Not really sure if this was discussed earlier, but I couldn't find any usable info about it.

      So, I have my company network gateway, that is configured to allow only 8 Mb/s per client (per IP to be specific). My idea was to build pfSense box with multiple NICs, assign two of them to WAN, set static IPs on them and and enable loadbalance between them to double the throughput, because if I understanding correctly, upstream gateway will treat my dual WAN pfSense as a two different clients with two different IPs.
      But I can't find a way to do this - any type of interface-based loadbalance just take one single IP (and MAC) from one of the NIC, which is defeating my plan. Gateway loadbalance (we have multiple gateways also) isn't working either because I still represented as a one IP in the network.
      So, is there any way to do this? Am I missing something?

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        rcoleman-netgate Netgate @navu
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        @navu I don't believe it is possible with a single Gateway.

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