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    Load balancing dual wan with redundancy

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Routing and Multi WAN
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      winston879
      last edited by

      Is it possible to use pfsense for loadbalancing a dual wan connection in a redunancy setup? I explain it with a little picture:

                  • -              - - - - - - - -
      • internet -              - internet -
                  • -              - - - - - - - -
                          -                              -
                          -                              -
                          - wan                      - wan
                  • -      sync    - - - - - - - -
                    -  master  -  - - - - - - - -  slave    -
                  • -                - - - - - - - -
                        - lan                          - lan
                        -                              -
                      - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  backbone
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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        If you have both WANs on both firewalls, and proper CARP VIPs on both WANs, then yes it works fine.

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