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 > -- > For full contact details visit http://www.minotaur.it > This email is made from 100% recycled electrons > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > -- Ermal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
