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    • J
      jan.gestre
      last edited by

      Hi Guys,

      It's my first time to configure a Multi WAN pfSense box so please bear with me  ;D anyways I have a working pfSense box with web and mail servers and all, we have a spare 2nd DSL line so why not set it up as failover and load balance, my question is do I have to assign a public static ip to WAN2 interface? or do I have to assign it a private address that does not conflict with my current LAN address?

      TIA.

      Jan

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        jan.gestre
        last edited by

        As an added information when I enabled WAN2 interface I am receiving this error from the pfSense console:

        dc0 watchdog timeout!
        dc0 reset never completed!

        I have no idea what it means.

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          familyguy
          last edited by

          @jan:

          As an added information when I enabled WAN2 interface I am receiving this error from the pfSense console:

          dc0 watchdog timeout!
          dc0 reset never completed!

          I have no idea what it means.

          It means that pfsense thinks that particular ethernet NIC is not connected to anything.  Perhaps you have a bad cable or the device it is connected to requires that you use a crossover cable?

          Best,

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            jan.gestre
            last edited by

            It is connected to the 2nd DSL modem and I'm using a straight cable for this, same with my other pfSense boxes. It is the same cable I used for the 2nd pfSense box that serves as our manual failover (I know it's an ugly backup)

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