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 clickRouting:

In the Gateways
tab, you can see that there are two gateways—WAN1
and WAN2
, which are defined here. WAN1
is the default gateway. There is still another gateway for both, but it is for DHCP6
, which is related to the IPv6 IP addresses. For now, let's just focus on the IPv4 IP network.
As mentioned earlier, a pfSense gateway is a system through which pfSense...