In the previous chapter, you learned about the firewall features supported by pfSense. You enabled the firewall and set up various rules to control the traffic flow within your network. In this chapter, you will learn how to configure pfSense to work with multiple WAN connections. You will also configure pfSense to failover and load balance the traffic across these WAN connections.
Here are some of the key learning objectives of this chapter:
- You will learn all about load balancing and failover processes across multiple WAN connections, and how to tie this in with pfSense
- You'll go through a series of demonstrations that will give you practical insight into configuring pfSense as a load balancer as well as a failover
- You will learn how to verify pfSense as a load balancer and as a failover
So, let's get started. To start with...