Could pfSense do this?  Instead of having the multiple wan go out to 2
directly attached ISP's, could I point the alternate WAN interface to a
router which connects over a point to point T1 to a location with an
internet connection connected to a M0n0wall?  From what I read the
pfSense can do monitoring and failover if unable to ping an address
which it tries to reach over a specific interface.


Ex.

        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
        >              >                                    >
>
        > m0n0wall 1   >                                    > m0n0wall 2
>
        >              >                                    >
>
        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
               >                                                 >
               >                                                 >Wan 1
               >                                                 >
        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>              >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
        >              > PT to PT T1  >              > WAN2 >
>
        >   ROUTER 1   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   ROUTER 2   >>>>>>>>  pfSense
>
        >              >              >              >      >
>
        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>              >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Buechler [mailto:cbuechler at gmail dot com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:29 PM
Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Object tracking

On 6/28/06, Chris K Ellsworth <ckellsworth at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> Are you talking about BGP?,
>

Eh, what he was describing, I didn't really take as being BGP (though
I'm actually having a discussion right now with someone saying exactly
that).  BGP isn't going to help with certain network failures, and
definitely isn't going to be practical for most people's Internet
connections.

I saw it more as a feature for a dual/multiple WAN setup where you
can't get BGP, which would probably be 99.9+% of all Internet
connections.  I'm sure there are probably some of those commercial
multi WAN devices (for load balancing multiple Internet connections)
that do something like this.

-Chris

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