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    Pfsense just as a loadbalancer

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      cal_j
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      Is something like this even possible?

      Have 2 dsl connections from the same company. Not bothered with failover, but their are slower connections.

      Any way to treat pfsense just as a load balancer and bridge all of the connections? Really don't want to have to modify the firewall at all

      Thats what I'm looking at

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        GruensFroeschli
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        No.
        The loadbalancer wouldn't work in a bridged setup. Only in a routed/NATed setup.

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          danesco
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          And its possible this? Without bridge, i want that smoothwall (or maybe a pfsense2) see the ip give by pfsense 1 as his gateway.

          ISP1
                PFSENSE1 –--- Smoothwall--- LAN
          ISP2

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            XIII
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            yes. if you dont want to use the firewall capabilities of pf, just disable them.

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