Dual Wan Load balance/failover with Dynamic Gateways

[Vescovo]

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Again, great product!

Environment 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT-01-19-2007 built on Fri Jan 19 15:38:01 EST 2007
LAN  192.168.1.1
WAN DHCP(192.168.0.2)  SS6520 ADSL2+ Router  @192.168.0.254
OPT1 DHCP(192.168.2.2)  SS6520 ADSL2+ Router @192.168.2.254

Load Balancer:Pool
Wan1BalanceWan2  gateway  wan opt1 64.235.192.30 64.230.199.5 Load balance Wan1&Wan2   
Wan1FailoverWan2  gateway  wan opt1 64.235.192.29 64.230.199.5 Traffic via Wan1 | Wan2

The Wan1FailoverWan2 Pool is used for outgoing SSH HTTPS.

Both SS6520s have PPPoE connections with Static IPs except that the Gateway for WAN can change between 64.235.192.29 and 64.235.192.30.

Changes in the Gateway cause
Jan 21 18:20:19 slbd[1435]: Service Wan1BalanceWan2 changed status, reloading filter policy
Jan 21 18:20:19 slbd[1435]: ICMP poll succeeded for 64.235.192.30, marking service UP
Jan 21 18:20:19 check_reload_status: reloading filter
Jan 21 18:20:14 slbd[1435]: Service Wan1BalanceWan2 changed status, reloading filter policy
Jan 21 18:20:14 slbd[1435]: ICMP poll failed for 64.235.192.30, marking service DOWN
Jan 21 18:19:04 check_reload_status: reloading filter
Jan 21 18:18:29 slbd[1435]: Service Wan1FailoverWan2 changed status, reloading filter policy
Jan 21 18:18:29 slbd[1435]: ICMP poll succeeded for 64.235.192.29, marking service UP
Jan 21 18:18:26 check_reload_status: reloading filter
Jan 21 18:18:23 slbd[1435]: Service Wan1FailoverWan2 changed status, reloading filter policy
Jan 21 18:18:23 slbd[1435]: ICMP poll failed for 64.235.192.29, marking service DOWN
Jan 21 18:13:22 check_reload_status: reloading filter
Jan 21 18:12:47 slbd[1435]: Service Wan1FailoverWan2 changed status, reloading filter policy
Jan 21 18:12:47 slbd[1435]: ICMP poll succeeded for 64.235.192.29, marking service UP
Jan 21 18:12:43 check_reload_status: reloading filter
Jan 21 18:12:42 slbd[1435]: Service Wan1FailoverWan2 changed status, reloading filter policy
Jan 21 18:12:42 slbd[1435]: ICMP poll failed for 64.235.192.29, marking service DOWN

The SS6520s are in router mode for 2 reasons
Supply a PPPoE client and allow wireless internet access bypassing pfsense.

Any suggestions besides picking a different monitoring IP?

[sai]

the standard workaround for dynamic ip addresses is to put in a simple (maybe Linksys) router in front of the pfSense.

You might do a traceroute and pick the next hop as a gateway.  it might work.

Dynamic gateways! wow. what will ISPs think of next to hassle us?