2 bugs in Outbound Multi-WAN Load Balancing with Gateway Groups

[md55]

I've used Gateway Group for "Outbound Multi-WAN Load Balancing" according to http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,10407.0.html

1. first bug:
   I have 2 uneven ADSL links: 128kbps + 512kbps.
   So I need to create 4 gateways with identical IP, but get error:
       * The gateway IP address "xxx" already exists

2. second bug:
   I created 2 gateways with different gateways IPs but with identical monitor IP and get error:
       * The monitor IP address "yyy" is already in use. You must choose a different monitor IP.
   But I really need to check links against the same public IP!

pfSense 2.0-BETA1, built on Sun Apr 4 07:58:41 EDT 2010, FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE

[cmb]

Neither one of those are bugs. You can't use the same monitor IP on multiple gateways, and you can't use the same gateway IP on multiple interfaces.

[cmb]

Oh, on the first, we do need to bring back a way to accommodate unequal balancing.
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/show/506

[md55]

@cmb:

You can't use the same monitor IP on multiple gateways.

Why not?
I have both gateways to the same ISP and I want use his main router as monitor IP on both gateways…

[GruensFroeschli]

Because of how routing works.
This is not a pfSense specific problem.
Behind the scene a static route for each monitor IP to it's respective gateway is created.
You cannot create a static route for the same IP to multiple gateways.