Question on WAN Failover

sstretchh

ninjaneer, This worked for you? I'm Kind of stuck here (trying to do my first failover on pfsense), so I am guiding myself with your post (I'm not so good with Firewall/NAT rules when it comes to forward traffic). Please, if something worked for you, let us know.

I understand your frustration, having the links to the DOC's don't help everyone. I am a visual learner so the DOCs are nice if you want to understand a setting but doesn't help explain exactly what goes where.

I used this link (below) in the beginning, but I didn't care about the load balancing part. Then I start this post and derelict posted and helped me out. In the end it worked for me. If OPT1 fails, it switchs to my WAN port. Once it detects the my OPT1 is up again it auto switches back.

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=28121.0

sstretchh

childgear, if this helps you here are screenshots of my final configuration. I think with the groups I only needed the OPT1failoverWAN1 group, I don't think i needed to have the one that starts with WAN. Its still there because I was following instructions from another post and I believe its needed if you continue on to do the load balancing part

this guys youtube video is pretty good also, if you comment with questions he replies pretty fast

DUAL WAN ON PFSENSE 2
Youtube Video

Edited to add youtube link

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chidgear

Thank you everyone!, I'll try this when the workload gets down, so I can use both links. If it worked, I'll be back with some kudos XD

Knakkel

Thanx everyone! As a newbie on pfSense this is most helpfull for me. For a couple of years i've been poking around with 2 wans and the right solution to shape traffic.
Recently i was pointed in the pfSense direction, and since that i've been reading and reading on how to implement it in my household. Like Derelict said; better read the manual before turning on the machine!

Again, thanx ;)