NAT and ISP Subnet when load balancing on pfsense?

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Published on 2012-11-24T23:07:13Z Indexed on 2012/12/08 17:07 UTC
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I have a pfsense box that I'm trying to plan the configuration for. I am going to be load balancing two ISP's, each with their own /29 static IP subnet. The question I have is in relation to the way those IP's are associated with workstations on the local network.

Currently I have some workstations with local (192.168.1.0/29) IP addresses, and other more complicated workstation setups have their own public IP address. Some of the more complicated systems have a NAT 1:1 configuration where I forward a public IP address to a local IP address. Others however are directly on the ISP subnet and cannot be seen on our local network.

Is this configuration possible with pfsense? If so, what terms should I be looking through the documentation for?

Here is a simple/brief diagram of what I am trying to achieve.

Network Diagram

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