Netgate 4100 - Can you "bond" the two WAN ports?
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If someone has 2Gbps fiber, can the 4100 WAN ports be "bond"ed to provide that 2Gb to the appliance? The goal is to use one RJ45 to WAN1 and an SFP 1Gb GPON to WAN2 and achieve 2Gbps to the LAN ports?
I found that I can go from 1Gbps to 2Gpbs from my provider for only $10 per month, so just trying to determine if I should/could try it.
My LAN network is a 2.5Gbps Ethernet, but runs at 1Gbps right now due to only having 1Gbps WAN currently.
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You can load-balance between two WANs but that won't work for a single connection, one download for example.
You can form two ports into a LAGG if the ISP supports it. If you're using on RJ-45 port and one SFP though that doesn;t seem likely.
Really it depends how your ISP is providing the connection.
You can always use of the 2.5G ports as a WAN.
Steve
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Yeah, I should have mentioned that I was also trying to keep all 4 2.5 ports as well. Oh well, I guess I'm stuck with 1G until I can upgrade.
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Well maybe you can use one of the LAN ports as WAN and LAGG the two WANs to an internal switch. Or something similar.
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I hadn't thought of that approach, TBH. 2G is less than 2.5G, but still much better than 1G
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I actually just managed to do something like this tonight. However, instead of bonding ports, I am just using a LAN port as my WAN interface.
I'm using LAN4 as my 2.5gbit WAN :D -- I'm getting ~1.9gbit on a 2.3gbit upstream connection.
I used chatgpt to figure this out, but basically, you can:
- navigate to Interfaces > Assignments.
- Click the dropdown next to the WAN interface, select the LAN4 device (igc3)
- save.
- Plug cat6 cable from LAN4 into ISP modem.
After clicking save, things just started working for me. I don't think I'm able to reach the full 2.3gbit bandwidth I have available upstream; but I'll take 1.9 over 1.0 any day.
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Thanks, I think that approach is what I'll most likely take. For $10 and double my speed from 1 to 2Gbps? Sure, I'll be GLAD to LAGG the 2 WAN ports and assign them to a lower-use VLAN and call it a day!
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Can someone please do a detailed settings how-to of this?
I would like to try this... -
@buggz It's in the documentation -- but you want to use the 2.5GbE ports for a faster connection rather than LAGG'ing your ports together.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/interfaces/lagg.html -
Thanks, I will try this weekend, gotta keep things working for work, sigh...
I really should get another pfSense box for testing. -
The gateway part is confusing me, I have two different ISP sources.
How can you possibly have one gateway? -
You cant use a lagg between two different WAN connections. You would use it to get more bandwidth (or redundancy) to a single high speed WAN.
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Bummer...
@stephenw10 said in Netgate 4100 - Can you "bond" the two WAN ports?:
You cant use a lagg between two different WAN connections. You would use it to get more bandwidth (or redundancy) to a single high speed WAN.
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@buggz said in Netgate 4100 - Can you "bond" the two WAN ports?:
Bummer...
But you can load balance.
What that won't get you is a single stream download at 2Gbps, but it could get you two different connections going at 1Gbps each.
