That is what we are using here. We have set "Packet Loss" as the "Trigger 
Level" in the gateway group. The default setting--"Member Down"--seems to miss 
most outages. 

We are using a DNS server as well, although we are using one further upstream 
from our ISP. We had a situation where we could ping our ISPs gateway--which is 
a concentrator in a field--but there was a fiber cut upstream. 

Rob 

----- Original Message -----

From: "David QuayCendre" <[email protected]> 
To: "pfSense support and discussion" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 7:35:53 AM 
Subject: Re: [pfSense] Dual-WAN Failover 

Hello, 
What is you configuration for the gateway ? Personally I select pack lost 
detection, and the test IP is the DNS of my ISP. So when the internet is down, 
the gateway is disable. 
If you want I can check my configuration this night, I have test this, but now 
I'm on 5 boxes with Tier 1. 

David 


2013/4/10 Robert Fuller < [email protected] > 


Did you create outbound NAT rules for both WAN interfaces? Did you set the 
gateway to the failover group for the inbound pass rules on the LAN interface? 
Have you checked the gateway statuses in the menu "Status->Gateways" to make 
sure pfSense really thinks one of the gateways is down? 

Rob 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denis Witt" < [email protected] > 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 5:10:41 AM 
Subject: [pfSense] Dual-WAN Failover 

Hi List, 

we have the following setup: 

1. WAN1 => SDSL 6/6 MBit 
2. WAN2 => VDSL 50/10 MBit 
3. LAN 

We want to use WAN2 as Default-Gateway, for most of our 
traffic. WAN1 should only be used if WAN2 isn't available 
(failover). 

So we created a Gateway Group (failover): 

WAN1 = Tier 2 
WAN2 = Tier 1 

Also we created the following floating rule: 

Direction: out 
Interface: WAN1, WAN2 
Proto : any 
Gateway : failover 

Everything works fine when both WANs are available. WAN2 is used as the 
preferred one. When one of the WANs goes down Internet is gone, so 
there is no failover... When we use Tier1 for both lines everything 
works fine (load balancing and failover) but we don't want to use load 
balancing. 

What are we missing? Thanks in advance. 

-- 
Best regards 
Denis Witt 
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