On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Mark Wiater <mark.wia...@greybeam.com> wrote:
> On 2/9/2011 9:12 AM,  Ermal Luçi said:
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Mark Wiater <mark.wia...@greybeam.com> 
>> wrote:
>
>> So... In the issue, Ermal indicates that it's taken care of in 2.0 in 
>> another way. I think I missed what that other way is. Because if the 
>> interface that holds my default route goes down, lots of traffic doesn't end 
>> up hitting the internet unless it sources from an internal network and I've 
>> got a policy route in pf.
>>
>> It will be taken care from pf(4) policy route. In pfSense there are
>> enhancement in the kernel to support that.
> When my WAN interface, the default route goes down, things like squid and 
> dnsmasq stop working for me, and I have multiple DNS entries in the general 
> setup using the different gateways.
>
>>> Is a dynamic default route change out of the question? What is the other 
>>> way to affect the same behavior in 2.0?
>> Not that its out of the question but the ways things work right now
>> its not the best option and the pf(4) fix works quite ok.
>> On 2.0 you can run even without a default gateway from what i have tested.
> In my experience, there are things that don't work from the firewall itself 
> and that can cause somewhat significant problems. How does dns forwarder 
> traffic or squid traffic know where to go if the default route is not 
> functioning? Is there a configuration in pf that I'm missing?
>
> It sounds like I'm missing some fundamental configuration concept to make it 
> work as well and as reliably as you have. I thought I looked everywhere for 
> the right way to configure multiwan but maybe I've missed it? Got any 
> pointers?

Please upgrade to a snapshot from 9th of February and up and just test it again.
You would  only need a gateway pool on the floating rules + AON to
make that work.
But please lets continue this on the forum.

>> Though for later releases this might be revisited but its low priority for 
>> now.
>
> Thanks Ermal
>
> Mark
>
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