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Configuring Gateway Groups

To configure pfSense as a load balancer or failover, you first need to create a Gateway Group. Let's do that now.

Before you start, let's first check if the client system has internet connectivity or not. Let's switch to the Windows 7 client system:

Open a browser window and navigate to a site, say google.com, and check the connectivity. You can also check this by opening the Command Prompt. Execute the ping google.com -t command:

As you can see, the ping command is working fine.

Now that you have verified the connectivity on the client machine, let's go back to the pfSense server.
Go to System tab and click ...

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