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Mastering pfSense

You're reading from   Mastering pfSense Manage, secure, and monitor your on-premise and cloud network with pfSense 2.4

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788993173
Length 450 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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David Zientara David Zientara
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Preface 1. Revisiting pfSense Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced pfSense Configuration 3. VLANs 4. Using pfSense as a Firewall 5. Network Address Translation 6. Traffic Shaping 7. Virtual Private Networks 8. Redundancy and High Availability 9. Multiple WANs 10. Routing and Bridging 11. Extending pfSense with Packages 12. Diagnostics and Troubleshooting 13. Assessments 14. Another Book You May Enjoy

Multi-WAN configuration

Gateway load balancing is accomplished by setting up gateway groups, which consist of two or more WAN interfaces. Configuring gateway load balancing involves several steps:

  1. Adding and configuring additional WAN interfaces.
  2. Configuring DNS servers for each of the new WAN interfaces.
  3. Adding gateway groups which include the new interfaces.
  4. Adding firewall rules for each of the new gateway groups.

The first step, adding and configuring additional WAN interfaces, is a fairly simple process. When you initially set up pfSense, the WAN interface was automatically configured, but configuring additional WAN interfaces isn't much different from configuring any other interfaces. Refer to the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Interfaces | (assign), and on the Interface Assignments tab, there should be a tab showing all the existing interface assignments (which should...
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