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How To Configure A pfSense 2.0 Cluster Using CARP In this HowTo I will show you how to configure a pfSense 2.0 Cluster using CARP Failover. pfSense is quite a advanced (open-source) firewall being used everywhere from homes to enterprise level networks, I have been playing around with pfsense now for the last 3 months and to be honest I am not looking back, it is packed full of features and can be deployed easily within minutes depending on your requirements.

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I find here more informative detail regarding PFSense topic is Cluster using CARP.I will apply on my network these CARP setting.I am using pfsense from past one year and find him user friendly and more secure.In a down line i submit a link for more detail regarding PFSense. Multi Wan LOadBalancing

By: Lazaro

Can I redirect ports with nat function to a private host inside LAN with the WAN CARP ip address?

By: Eugene

 Thank you for this manual. Really useful and working. I want to add one important thing if someone use PfSense cluster in VMWaare ESXi. In this case you have to configure promiscuous mode for all involved in this process virtual networks.

By: Mitra

you mean on the sync interface vlan in vmware ?

By: Progfou

Nope, he means the virtual network interfaces of both pfSense on both WAN and LAN sides.

By: B. ten Dolle

Can i configure a third pfsense server using CARP

By: MDL

Awesome article !

Do you think the same configuration can be used for multiple WAN ?

Thanks !