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    Pfsense 2.0 load balancing setup?

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      pieter64
      last edited by

      Hi,
      I have been using 1.3 with three network cards, loadbalancing and failover working perfect.
      I tried to upgrade to 2.0 but the load balancer stopped working and was just using the gateway on WAN
      I tried to install 2.0 from the live install cd but the loadbalancer setup is so different.

      I was wondering if there is and docs or tut's to show how to setup 2.0???
      My configuration is as below.

      nic1
      LAN interface (fxp0) 
      IP address 192.168.0.2   
      Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 
      Media 100baseTX <full-duplex>

      nic2
      WAN interface (xl0) 
      Status up 
      MAC address 00:01:02:57:04:b7 
      IP address 192.168.0.201   
      Subnet mask 255.255.255.255 
      Gateway WANGW 192.168.0.5 
      ISP DNS servers 202.136.43.239
      202.136.42.241

      nic3
      OPT1 interface (xl1) 
      Status up 
      MAC address 00:01:02:57:03:1c 
      IP address 192.168.0.202   
      Subnet mask 255.255.255.255 
      Gateway OPT1GW 192.168.0.3

      Any and all help is appreciated in advance.</full-duplex>

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        dusan
        last edited by

        @pieter64:

        Hi,
        I have been using 1.3 with three network cards, loadbalancing and failover working perfect.
        I tried to upgrade to 2.0 but the load balancer stopped working and was just using the gateway on WAN
        I tried to install 2.0 from the live install cd but the loadbalancer setup is so different.

        I was wondering if there is and docs or tut's to show how to setup 2.0???

        Yes. Read this: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,10407.0.html

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          pieter64
          last edited by

          Thanks dusan,

          I have now setup the gateways…see below.
          Name Interface Gateway Monitor IP Description

          WANGW (default)  WAN  192.168.0.5  192.168.0.5  Main_ADSL     
          OPT1GW  OPT1  192.168.0.3  192.168.0.3  Backup_ADSL

          I have then gone into the Groups .....

          Group Name LoadBalancing
          Gateways WANGW OPT1GW
          Priority Tier 1 Tier 1
          Description Load Balancing

          But it still is using the wan and never going to opt1.

          Have I missed something???????

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            dusan
            last edited by

            @pieter64:

            Thanks dusan,

            I have now setup the gateways…see below.
            Name Interface Gateway Monitor IP Description

            WANGW (default)  WAN  192.168.0.5  192.168.0.5  Main_ADSL       
            OPT1GW  OPT1  192.168.0.3  192.168.0.3  Backup_ADSL

            I have then gone into the Groups .....

            Group Name LoadBalancing
            Gateways WANGW OPT1GW
            Priority Tier 1 Tier 1
            Description Load Balancing

            But it still is using the wan and never going to opt1.

            Have I missed something???????

            Probably missing (policy-based) routing rules.

            Checkout you Firewall -> Rules -> LAN tab to be sure there are rules with gateway=LoadBalancing. If every rule is with gateway=* (where * means the default gateway) then all traffics go out via the default gateway (WAN).

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