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    Firewall rules when using multiwan in failover mode

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      v-2nas
      last edited by

      Hi Guys,

      I have pfsense deployment in multi wan failover mode using 2 wan links. So when I create a firewall rule for production lan and select a wan gateway group "WANFailOver", do I also need to create firewall rules on the wan interface to allow traffic?

      Regards,
      Nav

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        https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Firewall_Rule_Basics

        https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Firewall_Rule_Processing_Order

        https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Firewall_Rule_Troubleshooting

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          v-2nas
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          Thanks for answering this. So i don't need to create any firewall rule on the gateway (when creating firewall rule on LAN interface and selecting a failover gateway) since it will be handle by the state table? is that correct?

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