Netgate 4100 - Can you "bond" the two WAN ports?
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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.
