[pfSense] Double WAN with same GW

2012-07-09 Thread b...@todoo.biz
Hello, I have seen couple of threads about dual WAN bound to the same GW. I wanted to know if there was a proper way of dealing with this ? And what you suggested ? The idea is to set up a Gateway Group and be able to define various load balancing policies… (Policy based routing) + (2 Tier 1

Re: [pfSense] Double WAN with same GW

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Schuh
2012/7/9 b...@todoo.biz b...@todoo.biz Hello, I have seen couple of threads about dual WAN bound to the same GW. I wanted to know if there was a proper way of dealing with this ? And what you suggested ? The idea is to set up a Gateway Group and be able to define various load balancing

Re: [pfSense] Double WAN with same GW

2012-07-09 Thread Vassilis V.
Hi! The only difference to having different GW for each WAN is that with the same GW you need to specify a differnet monitor IP for one of the WAN interfaces. The rest of the configuration stays the same. Choose your monitor IP carefully though, if that IP ever stops responding or has a bad

Re: [pfSense] Network freezes on IBM x3550, Broadcom NICs

2012-07-09 Thread Paul Gear
On 09/07/12 06:01, Chris Buechler wrote: ... Can anyone comment on the quality of the Broadcom driver in post-8.1 releases? Is there any way to run a more recent kernel in conjunction with pfSense? Short of running 2.1, not easily. I do have some customer systems running 2.1 in

[pfSense] Multi-WAN for multiple LANs

2012-07-09 Thread Jerome Alet
Hi, We'd like to setup 2.1 with two different WAN interfaces, each being exclusively used by two sets of several LAN's. So what we've done is create first WAN (WAN1) and set its gateway (GW1) as the default one. And now we've added second WAN (WAN2) and its gateway (GW2) So we've got NETS1 as