Outbound Load Balancing poll

hoba

The only issue we had was with the failover/failback and dead states, hopefully in 1.3 this will be fixed and there will be no need of "dirty" workaround:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7808.0.html

We are investigating options to kill active states on failed links currently. If it's doable we'll add that feature.

CmdrFenix

I currently use pfSense on a dual circuit customer with static IPs. One is a frac T1 and the other is a Cable circuit. I have load balancing setup and also a rule forcing specific traffic out the cable line. Haven't seen anything with the load balancer marking the secondary line down, but to be safe, I added an addition monitor server to be sure.

hoba

Just for clarification: Loadbalancing itself is working just fine. It's only the "sticky" option from system>advanced that seems to cause issues for some installs. We are trying to gather some information on how many people are using it successfully and how many people are encountering issues with it. And we need some information on the setups of course to further troubleshoot it.

ugur

we use outbound loadbalancing and failover for 4 wan.

all works fine! (no sticky, no squid, no sip).

very easy setup and documents enough with forum for setup.

craigdrown

we've just set up dual WAN on 1.2 final:
with sticky connections on, only one link would work, and half the attempted connections would time out (or so it seems)
turned off sticky connections and all is fine.
Cheers,
Craig

ilko

@ilko:

Works fine for us. pfSense 1.2 with 2 WANs (ADSL)/1LAN.
Using sticky connections because of the VoIP devices.

Appoligies, just rechecked the settings, I confused sticky connections with the static-port option in Outbound NAT, which was used for the VoIP.

Sticky connections I had to turn off, can't remember the exact issue, but something like no web access when was used.
Can't recreate the problem at the moment as we are currently on one connection only.
Sorry for misleading.

@hoba:

We are investigating options to kill active states on failed links currently. If it's doable we'll add that feature.

Thanks for taking it into account.

Regards,
ilko

Wasca

I voted never use it. I have 2 WANS. One is ADSL2+ the other is 10MB Symmetrical link, both with static IP's

Reasons
1. I'm fairly new to PFSense
2. Was concerned with the issues other have seen

I would like to use it, but when I can be more confident in it.

Keep up the great work guys, and thanks for the poll.

olaf

Hi:

I was using load-balancing with sticky-connections. I need to change to high-availibility due to intermitent connection drops.

No further investigation due to production environment, but if you need some information, i can activate and debug some information.

I was using it in 1.1 with specific rules for https and ip checking sites. Update to 1.2 (pfsense full update 1.2) for the sticky-connections option.

Thanks for your work…

Best regards,

Olaf

sai

WAN1 ppoe dsl
WAN2 static cable internet

Loadbalancer works fine, no sticky stuff !

ilko

We are again on multiWan. I could play with sticky connections option, but what information would be helpful for you to troubleshoot the issue?

Yvan

I'm setup with multiwan and Sticky connections has disappeared from the page. It has the Load Balancing header and a submit button and nothing in between! I'm on 1.2RC3 I believe

anatak23

@Yvan:

I'm setup with multiwan and Sticky connections has disappeared from the page. It has the Load Balancing header and a submit button and nothing in between! I'm on 1.2RC3 I believe

Same here, running 1.2-RELEASE (built on Sun Feb 24 17:04:58 EST 2008)

drees

@Yvan:

I'm setup with multiwan and Sticky connections has disappeared from the page. It has the Load Balancing header and a submit button and nothing in between! I'm on 1.2RC3 I believe

If your WAN connection is a PPPoE connection, the setting is not displayed and always disabled. Not sure why (I'm just going from the source code).