On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Chris Bagnall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
> We have a number of pfSense boxes out there, usually with two ADSL 
> connections into each. When we first started down the multi-WAN route, there 
> was an issue with FTP, to which someone had rather helpfully posted a 
> workaround on the forum: insert a rule on the LAN interface as follows:
> TCP      LAN net         *       127.0.0.1       *       *
>
> This works around the issue perfectly, provided the following are true:
> a) the client trying to access a remote FTP server is on the LAN interface
> b) the first WAN interface is up
>
> it does not work on any other interfaces apart from the first LAN interface 
> (even with a similar rule on that interface as follows):
> TCP      OPT1 net        *       127.0.0.1       *       *
>
> Nor does it work if WAN1 is down for whatever reason.
>
> So, a couple of questions for other multi-WAN users if I may:
> 1) is this workaround still necessary in more recent versions of pfSense 
> (>=1.2.3)?
Only 2.0  can help you with this.

> 2) if so, is there any way to work around the two limitations above?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
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