Dual Internet Connections

[spetrillo]

Hello all,

I currently am running OPNsense 21.7 on my Protectli firewall device. It is supporting my residential FIOS services. I am considering bringing in a FIOS Business connection and wanted to know if OPNsense/firewall could support two independent Internet services? Has anyone pulled this off?

Thanks,
Steve

[sorano]

Yes it works.

Load balancing or failover, you decide.

I'm running failover to LTE and it works so good that there even was one time I didnt notice that a failover had occured until I realised my bandwidth was lower than it's supposed to.

See here for more information:
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/multiwan.html

[spetrillo]

I am actually not looking for failover or load balancing. One Internet connection is for my family and the second one is for my business. I just want to use one firewall to manage both connections. Can this work also?

[sorano]

I am actually not looking for failover or load balancing. One Internet connection is for my family and the second one is for my business. I just want to use one firewall to manage both connections. Can this work also?

Yes, that can be solved.

[spetrillo]

Thanks for that confirmation. I am waiting on some PCIe network cards to come in, so I can re-configure my current firewall. This could be an interesting solution.

[athurdent]

Load balancing or failover, you decide.

No need to decide, it can do both simultaneously. One can load balance and if one line dies it keeps using the working one as a failover.

I'm running failover to LTE and it works so good that there even was one time I didnt notice that a failover had occured until I realised my bandwidth was lower than it's supposed to.

You failed to set up mail notifications, otherwise you would have noticed.

Thanks for that confirmation. I am waiting on some PCIe network cards to come in, so I can re-configure my current firewall. This could be an interesting solution.

In each of your firewall rules, you can choose a gateway for e.g. a LAN source IP. So, no problem to use one (or more) dedicated WAN lines for different internal networks or IPs.