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    Load balance between two carped pfsense (working on nat)

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    • N Offline
      nadavbu
      last edited by

      Hi pros
      i would love to know how i can achieve this:
      i have two pfsense 2.03 servers
      one is main and one is backup, they are synced with carp (direct eth cable and dedicated interfaces)
      each is connected to its own port on the wan switch
      and its own port on the internal switch

      currently all traffic passes through the main pfsense
      how can i make the two pfsense machines load balance in addition to the failover?

      thanks in advance!! ::)

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      • jimpJ Offline
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        You can't. CARP only does failover (active/passive) and not active/active. Yet, anyhow. Might happen far off in the future.

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          nadavbu
          last edited by

          OK
          disappointing but its stillĀ  a free product so i cant really complain
          thanks a lot :)

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            mcat84
            last edited by

            Actually it depends on your setup…..automatic load balance not possible....but you can do manual redirect traffic to different pfsense server based on CARP priority on multiple VLANs setup.

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