[pfSense] CARP / VIP Failover Queries (NAT sessions and no preempt?)

2013-04-13 Thread James Bensley
Hi all, I have two pfSense 2.0.2 firewalls using CARP for active / passive fail-over with virtual IPs. This is working fine; Pinging the WAN or LAN shared IP and pulling the power plug on the master causes a short delay, then the ping's resume as the backup firewall has promoted its self to master

Re: [pfSense] Virtual IP's and outbound NAT

2013-04-13 Thread Dimitri Rodis
>I have a PFS 2.02 running nicely on VMware 5.1. IT has only TWO NIC's >assigned. WAN NIC on the PFS is set to accept promiscuous traffic. >I have a block of 6 IP's that I have set up as virtual IP's in PFS. I've read >every blog, post and news item that I can find to force specific outbound >tr