Read all of the load balance doc. Still not working.
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Sounds like a monitor IP issue. What does status>interfaces report for WAN and OPT1 if you unplug one of the interfaces?
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when i unplug wan-> both go down
unplug opt -> goes down.i have the wan monitoring the next hop 10.x.x.x
and the opt is hooked to the company intranet wich is connected via firewalled dsl. i have to monitoring the firewall gateway. -
Sounds like hardwareissues. Forcinfg one link down shouldn't affect another one.
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thats what i am thinking also.
the hardware is a Dell Optiplex gx150
1ghz
512 ram
20 gig drive
and a 2 port riser card-> (problem maker)
i will try on a different pc and keep you all posted thank you Hoba -
Check with a utility (if available) wether the ports are configured for something special like bonding (creating one link with double bandwidth) or similiar.
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i have the cards in the new machine with still no luck
i have the interface ips pointing to the nxt (ie the nxt hop after gateway)
and when i try the fail over ===nada nothing.
and i have one address of each dns server on the main setup page
and all the traffic demands to go down the main wan path no balancing here
Also as a side note when i have one of the wan unplugged (simulate down line) i get the request times out. as a message. any thoughts on this??
thank you
chase -
Do you get status Offline on the WAN link and status Online on the OPT1 link when you check Status/Load Balancer when it should do a failover?
Do you use two different ip addresses for monitoring? One for WAN and one for OPT1?
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Yes i am running the 1-24-07 snapshot
and i have one connection directly in to the back of the cable modem with a static ip addy
and the wan is plugged in to the company intranet and that is connected via a firewalled DSL connection to very different IP addy and very different Gatway. both ips are static. but to elaborate i am connected via the intranet and typing this the traffice will only go through the main wan no the opt interfaces. also when i unplug the opt interface the load balance pools will say opt down
when i unplug the wan interface it will say Wan down. so the program i think is running correct. i have this loaded on a PC with 3 nics in it, 2 are 3com 10/100 and the last is a intel 10/100. i really would like this runingif not it will be in the shelf with the rest of the hopefuls -
Have you tried running a traceroute from the pfSense shell?
If not, try traceroute 64.233.183.104 and traceroute www.google.com.Try running them both while everything is running normal, then after that
try running the same traceroutes, but first simulating WAN failure thus forcing
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This won't work. Only connections running through the pfSense can make use of policybased routing/loadbalancing. The pfSense itself will always use the default gateway at WAN. That is also the reason why you need a static route to the second DNS via WAN2 btw. If you do these tests try tracerouting from a cliient behind the pfSense.
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i got it to work…. sorta
i have the modems directly plugged in to the back of hte pfsnes box
and i have the monitoring ips all set
when i simulate a downage it will contunine to provide interent.
but now it will only use the opt for constant connections/ dl but will share the wan when browsing.
kinda funny
i will go with it for now
what is the status of the latest release?
what was changed?
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Have a look at http://pfsense.blogspot.com/2007/01/102-beta-period-will-start-soon-5-9s.html for a summery of changes.
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well guys (girls) Pfsense is running a 50 user companys internet load sharing on a
1ghz pIII
256 ram
3 nics
and HdWhen properly configured it blows away what the little and very expnsive previous firewall $0n!c W@ll i am not by any means knocking the $0n!c W@ll but this is far superior.
thank you for all your help and hope to see you in the future!!!!!!