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    pfSense multi-wan with Starlink Enterprise as failover

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      aetherton
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      To preface, this is for the company I work for. At our location we have a fiber connection from the local PUD as our primary WAN. We also now have a Starlink Enterprise dish as our backup WAN. I've already set up the Starlink with the gateway, added to the failover gateway group. Our WAN connections run through a Cisco 6509. However, when I plug in the Starlink it drops our entire network. There is no router since the Enterprise dish has a built-in router.

      pfsense logs after plugging in starlink.jpg

      I've tried configuring the Starlink interface to a physical port on the hardware to make sure it wasn't something with the VLAN on the Cisco core switch but issue persists. And for clarification, there is no WAN1 from the log, it's an interface that no longer is active. our fiber connection is the WAN2.

      FWIW, I configured the Starlink interface exactly how another article in this community said to.
      pfsense starlink interface 1.jpgpfsense starlink interface 2.jpg pfsense starlink interface 3.jpg

      Any advice would be amazing. Thank you!

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