sticky connections ignored

netblues

I haven't been using multiwan for quite some time, but when I did, everything worked as expected/
I have revisited this scenario and it seems that stickiness is completely ignored.

Load balancing works as expected, getting the full aggregate speed in multi connection speedtests.
However one would expect that speedtests should use only 1 line with stickiness enabled, which doesn't seem to be the case

This is also verified by having connections change source ip's which typically in e.g. web banking logs you out immediately when load balancing.

I have

But I get nothing at

which is rather strange.

This has worked in the past.

This is on pfplus beta 25.07. Am I missing something or is it a bug?

pwood999

Most speedtests are multi-threaded these days, hence they will load-balance.

Use public iperf server with single session outbound, and it should stick.

I also had the banking issue, so created an alias containing those sites, and added a rule using that alias to use a specifis gateway rather than the group.

netblues

@pwood999 said in sticky connections ignored:

Most speedtests are multi-threaded these days, hence they will load-balance.

Use public iperf server with single session outbound, and it should stick.

What???

No, you are wrong.

If stickiness was working correctly, speedtests would stick and NOT load balance.

What you suggest is a workaround for broken stickiness.

pwood999

@netblues If that were true, how would the Ookla App report the combined speed of multi-Wan configs ?

I used to have both Virgin Cable (300Mb) & BT VDSL (400Mbps) at home. This test would be impossible if the Ookla app used a single connection !!

netblues

@pwood999 Obviously it would not.

If stickiness is enabled, ookla speedtest only tests one wan.
This is the expected behavior.

Oookla is multihtreaded but ALL threads are done towards a SINGLE destination.
It never connects to different ip's, so stickyness would kick in

Obviously you had the same bug.

If stickiness would stick, then you don't need to exclude ANYTHING.

However the feature seems broken for quite some time.

pwood999

@netblues ok fair enough. Doesn't matter to me anymore because I cancelled my BT broadband last year & now have just VMO2 !!

netblues

@pwood999 Yep., this seems to be the case for many, and in multi gig connections the need to load balance is only for speedtest pictures. :)

Sticky connections seem to be broken.

pwood999

@netblues Not quite. My reason for having it was reliability for work not speed, so that consumer broadband failure didn't leave me isolated.

I didn't care about sticky connections because I had a suitable & simple work-around.

Another reason for using Alias & Rules was VM public IP was stable for months, so "allowed IP" on work lab firewalls did not require constant maintenance. BT public IP changed almost every day.

Also BT Router does not work with SamKnows, but VM Router does - hence this one needs an alias & rule. LB or Sticky would be useless !!

netblues

@pwood999 Indeed.

I also run dual fiber links (on different physical fibers, with different building entry points)
for resilience, not speed.

Plain failover is enough for me too.

But issues are issues and should nevertheless be fixed.