Any benefit to LAGGing PfSense?
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pretty straightforward question...
Network is all gigabit, but i have a bunch of free ports on both my PfSense box and my TrueNAS box (thinking of lagging that too if theres any benefit and no downsides)
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@menethoran Traffic shaping doesn't work on LAGG. OTOH if one has a HA setup LAGG can present the same interface name on different hardware, to allow state sync on different hardware/NICs. Unless your Internet is faster than gigabit it seems unlikely to help.
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It provides connection redundancy. Should you get a failing NIC or bad cable you will not lose connectivity.
You can't using AltQ based traffic shaping on LAGG interfaces dircetly. However you can use it on a VLAN running over the LAGG. And you can use Limiters on any interface type.Steve
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Also remember LAGG of 2x1G interfaces doesn't mean you will get 2G of bandwidth for one single connection. You will at MAX get one single 1G stream and if your application can use multiple streams you could get 2x1G.
