July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 15m
English
Content preview from Network Security with pfSense
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
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 ...