Network Security with pfSense

Failover across multiple WAN connections

Now, pfSense has been configured for load balancing and implicit failover. Let's proceed and verify this configuration further.

Let's take the verification one step further. Instead of disabling a WAN connection, let's try to disable each of the gateways and observe the effects:

1. Click System tab on the toolbar and select Routing. Click the Gateway Groups tab:

Both have the Priority set to Tier 1, which indicates that pfSense is currently working as a load balancer, which inherently also provides failover.

2. Click the Gateways tab and let's disable the first link, which is WAN1-DHCP:

3. Click the