Dual Wan Guide (I've RTFM!)

indiocolifa

Hi folks, as a fan of FreeBSD, i'm trying to setup a pfSense box in the following scenario:

15 Windows XP PCs (network 192.168.0.0/24) connected with a cheap 24-port switch
One PIII-750 box for pfSense with 3 NICs, attached to:

NIC 1 : 192.168.0.1/24 attached to LAN
NIC 2 : to Zyxel Modem-Router
NIC 3 : to el-cheapo ISP Modem (I don't know if this sad plastic box can work as a router)

The two modems are connecting to the same ISP through PPPoE. This ISP assigns IPs dynamically.

Note that I need the LAN PCs to work with static addresses, not DHCP (this is due to some stupid software working with fixed IPs only).

From what I've read so far, this setup can be configured as load-balancing, since I should use PPPoE only on the non-router modem, while the Zyxel ModemRouter can be configured with an internal IP acting as gateway.

I want to ask some questions from http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/MultiWanVersion1.2

Why I should use DHCP on the modems if I don't want the modems to work as a DHCP server to the LAN?
What If the cheap modem works with PPPoE and cannot be configured as router?
At current release, it's posible to use 2 PPPoE dynamic-IP connections (not routing through the modem-router)?

At last, while this is not referred to this theme, can Squid be used with PFSENSE?

Thank you very much, I'm confused because I tried other software solutions and couldn't get the functionality I need.

indiocolifa

I've discovered that the cheap modem can be configured… if this can be setup as router maybe I'm lucky.

sai

@indiocolifa:

Why I should use DHCP on the modems if I don't want the modems to work as a DHCP server to the LAN?

The Howto uses DHCP only as an illustration. You can setup your IP addresses as static. In any case the DHCP would only give an IP address to the firewalls interfaces facing the modem, NOT to the PCs in the LAN.

@indiocolifa:

At last, while this is not referred to this theme, can Squid be used with PFSENSE?

There is a Squid package that can be installed. Look in the Packages section in this forum for more info.

Pootle

Unless someone has done some serious work, squid cannot be used with load balancing…