PFSense Ipsec failover: newbie needs help

[budhapalm]

I have installed pFsense on 2 ALIX box, both with 3 ethernet ports (LAN,WAN,OPT1).  I will have 2 active internet connections on each of the pFsense box,  one for active internet/vpn the other for failover.

Each of the ALIX box will have an ADSL connection with a static IP, failover will have PPoE with static IP (can I use PPoE?) if not this can always change to a cable static IP.

- LAN -
      |
    ALIX_1 (pfsense)
  +–--+----+
  |            |
ISP1        ISP2
Master      Failover 
WAN        OPT1
  |              |     
  |              |
(  Internet    )
  |              | 
  |              |
ISP3          ISP4
MASTER    Failover
WAN          OPT1
  +----------+
    ALIX_2 (pfsense)
        |
    - LAN -

I have searched the threads on this forum, and have looked at the guides available on this site but still have not come with a detail setup guide.  If anyone has a similar setup or any insight on this setup, please give me a brief tutorial on where to start.

Thanks in advance.

[hoba]

PPPoE will only work on the original WAN interface, not on OPTs. If you have the option to get static IPs there I would rather use that instead of PPPoE.

IPSEC-failover is not possible.

For normal traffic just create a failoverpool at services>loadbalancer, type failover and enter the gateways in the order you want them to be used. Then reference this pool in your firewallrules.