Comments on: Using outbound/gateway load balancing? Please vote!

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:47:22 +0000

Random loss of traffic is indeed the issue, we’re going to have to prohibit sticky connections for the time being until someone can track down the issue in FreeBSD.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:59:51 +0000

As I understand it, the topic of this vote is supposed to be about load balancing WITH “sticky connections”, not just simply load balancing.

My set up is:
WAN1=static via PPPoE type
OPT1=DHCP via Cable type

I am using pfSense 1.2 and I am definately having a problem when “sticky connections” is activated. If it is activated, I get random loss of traffic on my WAN1 connection. If I disable “sticky connections” the problem goes away.

The idea behind “sticky connections” is excellent, and it would save us from the problems of accessing secure sites and getting dropped, like say when you’re logged in to your bank account and two requests come from different WAN IP addresses.

I am open to being contacted for further testing.

By: Kambeeng

Kambeeng — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:57:07 +0000

I am from indonesia.. I am use pfsense for load balancing, i am use 2 ADSL , and its greats.. my internet connection more faster.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:41:45 +0000

I have just installed pfSense and am finding it simply terrific. I will be using it for load balancing 2 WAN connections, one PPPoE and one DHCP. I have used a few consumer dual-wan products, only to find that they are all “very young” and do not do as they are instructed. pfSense appears to have excellent options, and great control. So far, it is looking very good.

By: DuroM

DuroM — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:26:25 +0000

Hi All,
first of all I want to say THANKs a lot for pfSense. I use m0n0wall for approx 4 years. I use 2 WAN based on ADSL and now I have two m0n0walls on it. I try and planned to envolve pfSense for 3 times starting with 0.9 version.
It looks good, but what is my problem it is Bandwidth Sharing Policy. I need make it possible for two LAN and two WAN and configuration of this is quite difficult (LAN to WAN, LAN to WAN1, LAN1 to WAN and LAN1 to WAN1)…
I am trying to prepare some scripts by my self for this kind of work, but….until now I havenot it. Is there some thinking about this kind of automatization in pfSense workload…

Thanks a lot DuroM

By: Jose Amengual

Jose Amengual — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:49:39 +0000

Thats cool.

I will try the version 1.2 to see what happened, I didn’t try after my first time so I will let you know how goes with 1.2v.

That is another reason of why I’m taking the tutorial in the BSDCan

Can you differentiate traffic , like Voip to go to one of the wan links ? ( no only 5060, rtp too )

Thanks

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:00:06 +0000

Jose: the only issue of those you mentioned with a properly configured load balancing setup in pfSense 1.2 is not clearing the states on failed connections, which as stated above typically isn’t a problem.

I’m sure you can find people having all those problems at some point in the forum due to misconfiguration, but they aren’t problems with the system.

By: Jose Amengual

Jose Amengual — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:53:00 +0000

Hi.

I’m going to use with two internet wan connections.

There is a lot of issues in LBs with , DHCP configurations, States in pf after one of the links fails, routing services on one of the links when the two connections are up etc.

But for sure I will give it the try.

By: David

David — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:52:59 +0000

10X
I’ll take it there.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:11:14 +0000

1.3 is not yet publicly available, watch here for updates.

David, sounds like further discussion of the issue you’re seeing should be brought up on the forum or list, and maybe we can get to the bottom of it.