Sticky Connections?
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I understand the motivation behind the "Sticky Connections" feature for MultiWAN setups, but I'm wondering about the implementation itself: does this mean that generally, for any given machine, it will always use the same WAN connection? Or is it on a connection-to-connection basis? The reason I ask is, I'm currently using load balancing on pfSense 1.2, and I have a specific rule set for my machine only (for testing purposes) to use the load balancing. However, when I run traceroute, I see that I'm only ever using one of the WAN connections. Is traceroute a viable test to check that load balancing is working? I see in the load balancer status that both WAN connections are online, and I can set either gateway from those connections and the traffic will go out either way, but whenever I use the load balancing "gateway" it seems that I only ever go out one WAN connection.
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connection-to-connection basis but it doesn't really work as one could wish in 1.2 you'll get frozen pages.
Disable sticky connection and test on sites like http://ipnr.dk/ where your ip should change every time you refresh the page. -
Awesome, thanks Perry. It seems to flip back and forth every now and then now :)
In this case, since I'm not using sticky connections, I need to set up policy-based routing for certain types of connections, right? Like ssh, https (443), etc?