Need help with dual WAN/ dual LAN failover setup.

Gunther

My primary connection is over a cable modem which is nice and fast but has been having enough problems lately that I've also installed a DSL feed so I have something to use while the cable company tries to find the source of an intermittant problem.

What i want to accomplish is to run over the cable modem for everything and then failover to the DSL feed when the cable feed starts acting up.
It would also be a nice feature if I was able to selectively have individual machines on my lan use the DSL feed as thier primary route to the internet.

I'm a little lost as how to set this up though.

I have two lans, the wired one and a wireless…


LAN interface (em1)
Status 	up
MAC address 	00:0e:0c:cf:e0:e8
IP address 	192.168.8.1  
Subnet mask 	255.255.255.0
Media 	1000baseTX <full-duplex>In/out packets 	49056/49003 (5.87 MB/10.55 MB)
In/out errors 	0/0
Collisions 	0

WiFi interface (ral0)
Status 	associated
MAC address 	00:1f:1f:a8:5c:61
IP address 	192.168.16.1  
Subnet mask 	255.255.255.0
Media 	autoselect mode 11g <hostap>Channel 	4
SSID 	stomped
In/out packets 	8802/8283 (1.72 MB/1.43 MB)
In/out errors 	0/113
Collisions 	0</hostap></full-duplex>

The two WAN feeds are as follows…

WAN interface (em0)
Status 	up
DHCP 	up  
MAC address 	00:0e:0c:da:31:82
IP address 	24.179.178.233  
Subnet mask 	255.255.255.0
Gateway 	24.179.178.1
ISP DNS servers 	4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
Media 	100baseTX <full-duplex>In/out packets 	63911/49378 (30.54 MB/3.89 MB)
In/out errors 	0/0
Collisions 	0 

WAN2dsl interface (vr0)
Status 	up
DHCP 	up  
MAC address 	00:50:8d:7c:27:69
IP address 	192.168.0.2  
Subnet mask 	255.255.255.0
Gateway 	192.168.0.1
Media 	100baseTX <full-duplex>In/out packets 	1941/1411 (1.43 MB/211 KB)
In/out errors 	0/0
Collisions 	0</full-duplex></full-duplex>

Everything is working fine over the cable setup, but I'm a little bit at a loss as how to setup the load balancer pools and firewall rules because one of the feeds is acting as a bridge with a DHCP address (the cable feed) and one is through a router with the 192.168.0.0/24 address (The DSL feed.)

Any suggestions would be most apreciated.

Gunther

Anyone interested in a one time consulting fee to help me get the initial configuration up and working?

indesman

What version of pfSense are you using? When I set up my 1.2.3 configuration I used a tutorial that I can't find right now. You might want to check this out:

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi_WAN_/_Load_Balancing I didn't use this one but it looks similar.

and I just found this for 2.0 which I'm going to get started on in the morning:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=28121.0

Regards,
Michael