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Bug #11350

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Multi wan default gateway bug and gateway monitoring bug

Added by Samuel Hanna about 3 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
High
Assignee:
-
Category:
Multi-WAN
Target version:
-
Start date:
01/30/2021
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

Hello,

My setup is so easy, i have two wan lines which are working in pppoe and one lan network, i have a gateway group for load balancing connections which is fine.
i do have some policy routing rules in firewall which is working fine. but i have noticed two bugs in gateways working way.
First: when i set the default ipv4 gateway to the gateway group pfsense persists to choose one of the group members as default gateway which is not making any kind of sense for me,
as both of them should be default not only one. which leads to the second bug with monitoring gateways.
I set a monitor ip for every gateway, which should pfsense monitor the gateway through its own route by this ip, but it is not happening like that. It monitors both gateways through the default gateway route
which is not making any sense too. as gateway may could be down but it's not appearing as the socket is alive through the other one.
will attach some screenshots providing the information that could help.


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Default_Gateway_Bug.png (41.4 KB) Default_Gateway_Bug.png Samuel Hanna, 01/30/2021 10:52 PM
Gateways_Monitoring_Bug_1.png (50 KB) Gateways_Monitoring_Bug_1.png Samuel Hanna, 01/30/2021 10:52 PM
Gateways_Monitoring_Bug_2.png (54.3 KB) Gateways_Monitoring_Bug_2.png Samuel Hanna, 01/30/2021 10:53 PM
Default_GWG.png (3.49 KB) Default_GWG.png Samuel Hanna, 03/03/2022 02:00 PM
Gateway_Group.png (2.86 KB) Gateway_Group.png Samuel Hanna, 03/03/2022 02:00 PM
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Updated by Jim Pingle about 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Rejected

Default gateway groups can only be failover, not load balance. There is no way to have two default gateways of equal value. So the rest of the behavior is invalid/undefined. This site is not for support or diagnostic discussion.

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