On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Veiko Kukk <veiko.k...@krediidipank.ee> wrote: > Bill Marquette wrote: >> >> Setup a load balancer entry with an active node and a failover node. > > As I previously said, I dont want load balancing, I only need failover.
duh, what do you think this provides? Rhetorical question, obviously you think a load balancer pool of ONE entry and a failover entry somehow magically balances multiple entries. > If wan fails then opt1 is used until wan returns. As simple as that. How to > configure pfsense to accomplish that? > Currently I'm having one failover pool (Type: Gateway; Behavior: Failover): > wan|wan gateway > opt1|opt1 gateway yup, that's it. > > >> Use that entry as your gateway in your rules. > > I have one firewall rule for LAN to accept all traffic from one host in LAN > and gateway is that pool. good >> It's really not rocket science. > > I'm still unable to get packages list in pfsense web interface, thought I'm > able to ping outside world from that one LAN host. > When I ping google.ee from command line, I get: And we finally get to your misunderstanding. Failover is for traffic routed _through_ pfsense. During a failover situation as you've described, pfsense itself will not have a route to the internet. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
