WAN Gateway on Backup server in CARP shows down
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Hi
Is it normal for wan gateway to be shown as down by gateway monitoring for a pfsense box thats acting as backup ?I have ha between 2 pfsense boxes . using 3 interfaces. one for sync and one for wan one for lan. wan and lan has carp ip assgined.
When the primary is active the gatway on other server is shown as down and i cannaot ping any ip on wan subnet from the server that is backup .. even cannot ping the wan ip of master server . however from my isp side the ip of wan is responding to pings.
both ping and trace results fails on backup node.
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@Snailkhan said in WAN Gateway on Backup server in CARP shows down:
wan and lan has carp ip assgined
Just to be clear WAN and LAN should have their own unique IP addresses:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/high-availability.html#wan-addressing
Each router should be able to get to the Internet even without CARP set up. That way they can, for instance, update pfSense while the other router is the Master.
And then the shared CARP IP is used for outbound NAT if you're using NAT:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/high-availability.html#configure-outbound-nat-for-carp
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@SteveITS said in WAN Gateway on Backup server in CARP shows down:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/high-availability.html#wan-addressing
Hi @SteveITS
Thanks for the prompt response. I have assinged uniqe ips on wan port of each pfsense box . and uniquie ip on lan of both pfsense.yet when a pfsense box is in Backup mode i cannot get to wan from it. all pings form it fails. eve cannot get a ping replies when i ping the wan ip of another pfsens which has wide open rule on that interface,