Comments on: How to Setup Failover and Load Balancing in PFSense

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 17:30:46 +0000

I configured pfSense as described but found it does not work as documented (or at least as I interpreted it). In step 19 the rule with the TechmintADSL gateway will be valid for all IPv4 traffic and all IPv4 will be load balanced. The 2 rules with WAN1Failover and WAN2Failover as gateways will never be used since all traffic match the rule higher in the list. This is exactly what my configuration was doing. You would either have to limit the traffic for each rule so that they cover specific traffic that doesn't overlap with another rule below it. In other words, you might have a rule with WAN1Failover that matches http/https traffic and another rule for TechmintADSL that matched anything to send everything else via load balancing.

By: MJ

MJ — Sat, 19 May 2018 03:25:18 +0000

Hello ! please i have a question how i can test the 2 WANs by putting one of them up or down
i don’t know how to test it

By: mr.notHappyWithMySetup

mr.notHappyWithMySetup — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:37:00 +0000

I did exactly as in guide, but performance is horrible. With dual WAN my overall speed is same as one WAN.
Tested with 5 clients connected to pfsense doing various different transfers over the internet.
Please write how to fix this.

By: Rene

Rene — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 05:19:40 +0000

Hello I did these instructions and it was successfully been worked with the process but the problem is the traffic shaper or limiter is not working properly I set up some 2 mpbs in and out but the result in speed test is now with the given speed. how should i fix this?
thank you in advance

By: Tony Stone

Tony Stone — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 21:48:31 +0000

In reply to Alex.

The fail-over rules would be useful for traffic that you want to go through A SINGLE GATEWAY. For example, I have a setup where all HTTPS traffic goes through one gateway and is not balanced. But if that gateway is down I need it to failover to the next available gateway.

You should only to create a single fail-over Gateway Group and set the gateway priority through the Tiers options. I did setup multiple fail-over groups though so I can have all SIP traffic on WAN1 with fail-over and all FTP traffic is on WAN2 with fail-over and so on and all 2082 traffic on WAN3, etc… This way I can keep my total traffic balanced between my 3 gateways.