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It is. Multi-wan is easier with appliances. I used pfSense over the last 12 years or so with multi-wan on and off (currently off). I've run pfSense in a kvm
by hpcjoe 6y ago
It is.
Multi-wan is easier with appliances. I used pfSense over the last 12 years or so with multi-wan on and off (currently off). I've run pfSense in a kvm VM, and you can do multi-wan with this. Though I generally recommend dedicated NICs for the WANs and LAN.
I've looked at the linux based appliances (as late as last week) and only clearos or openwrt supported multi-wan. I could be wrong (I'd like to be as pfSense/OPNsense are FreeBSD based, and that comes with, sadly, huge amounts of baggage, limited hardware support, etc.). I'll likely be looking at that package as a potential replacement for the pfSense system, though if clearos can't handle what I need, OPNsense is like pfSense, but with far less baggage.
If you don't mind tinkering, you might be able to use mwan3[1].
If you prefer OpenWRT, you can look at running it in a VM[2] along with mwan3.
[1] https://github.com/Adze1502/mwan https://github.com/Adze1502/mwan
[2] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu
- stock_toaster 6y agoI believe vyos supports WAN balancing (and/or failover).
- tesseract 6y agoI set up multi-WAN in a few small business contexts (on a Zyxel appliance, and on pfSense) and to be honest it was always a little flakier than I hoped. It was always failing over too quickly, or too slowly, or not reverting back to the primary WAN quickly enough when the failure/congestion cleared up. I think any sort of multi-WAN setup where you aren't actually an AS running BGP is doomed to be somewhat hacky. Of course running an AS is both a ton of work, and basically impossible for a residential customer anyway.
- hpcjoe 6y agoThe failbacks never actually occurred for me. I'd generally have to reboot the router.