Running two WAN Networks (or Failover)

MikeHalsey

Hi all,

While I have a Netgate 2100 and use it happily this isn't really my own tech specialism, so please go easy on me with explanations

I have, as I said, a Netgate 2100 that gets its internet connection from a Starlink box. It then passes that connection, once its filtered everything, through to a TP-Link Omada router which manages several virtual networks around my home / office network.

I am considering getting a fast fibre connection here in addition to my Starlink connection for failover.

What I'm wondering though, is if it's possible to configure pfSense+ so as to all the use of BOTH lines simultaneously. With two of the LAN ports on the Netgate feeding the two WAN input sockets on the TP-Link router which can then be set to assign the two connections to different VLANs, naturally at the moment I'm only doing one connection this way.

The second part of this is, should one of the lines fail (I live in central southern France and the wooden telegraph poles here fall over with alarming regularity) can a failover be configured so that if one line fails, the other will automatically begin feeding BOTH output lines to the router?

If this isn't possible, can somebody please point me to documentation on how I configure a standard failover with two input lines to the Netgate?

Many thanks all

viragomann

@MikeHalsey
Your're probably looking for this:
Load Balancing and Failover with Gateway Groups

If you have multiple gateways you can create failover groups using them.
You can configure the groups for doing load balancing by assigning equal Tiers to the gateway, or set preferences by different Tiers.

And you can configure multiple gateway groups for different purposes with different settings using the same gateways.

The upstream traffic is routed according the default gateway settings in System > Routing. You can also state a gateway group here.
To route certain devices or a subnet to a different gaeway (group) you have to create policy routing rules, where you state a gateway (group) in the pass rule.

MikeHalsey

@viragomann Thanks I'll have a look