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    Load Balancing oddity

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      muteid10t
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      I am having a little problem with Load Balancing/Dual WAN.

      Running pfSense 1.2RC2.

      I have followed all the steps in the MultiWan1.2 doc.

      Network currently setup as follows:
      T1 ->Cisco Router -> Network.
      Cisco is acting as firewall currently, want to remove firewalling from cisco and replace w/ pf.

      Want to move to the following setup (removing firewall functionality from the cisco):
      T1 -> Cisco router (acting only as a router) -> pf -> network
      DSL -> pf -> Network

      T1 will be primary internet line
      Dsl will be secondary internet line
      Wan and Lan will be using public IP's.

      The problem I am running into is that when I have the pf box Lan & Wan interfaces connected to the internal network for testing everything works as it should and traffic is forwarded to the cisco via the wan interface out to the internet.
      Switch –> Lan
                ---> Wan

      The second I attach the pf wan interface to the cisco router so pf can be my firewall i loose all internet access via the wan connection.
      i can still traceroute and ping from the pf box out the wan interface just fine but all traffic from the LAN out the WAN interface stops.
      Traffic is still sent out the opt1 interface over my dsl line but I can not get any traffic to pass out the WAN from the LAN.

      I have advanced oubound nat turned on, with no AON rule for my WAN interface, there is a rule for my DSL interface.
      I have tried adding a rule for the WAN interface even though I am using public ip on my LAN to no avail.
      I tried changing the gateway on the LoadBalance firewall rule to just use the default route gateway but that did not help

      I know it has to be something in my setup but for the life of me I can not find my misconfiguration.

      Can anyone help point me in the right direction so I can get this working.

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