Howto Multi WAN-Load Balancing and failover with pfsense 2.0-BETA4

demarchip

Hi guys… I tried to configure the gateways in failover mode, like daedalous, and don´t work.

-I configure 2 gateways (1 cable modem and 1 ADSL). I put the monitor IP and Advanced options (weight and Packet Loss thresholds).
-I make the group, Cable Tier1 and ADSL Tier2, tigger by packet loss.

-Put the Firewall-> Rule with advanced option Gateway and select the correct gateway group.

When I go to Status->Gateways menu I see the gateways status it´s Online.

But the status Gateways Group it´s Unknown

In the Status->System Log I can see:


Sep 12 21:58:52     php: : The gateway: Fiber_failover_Arnet is invalid/unkown not using it.
Sep 12 21:58:52     php: : The gateway: Fiber_failover_Arnet is invalid/unkown not using it.
Sep 12 21:58:52     php: : Gateways status could not be determined, considering all as up/active.

Iam using the latest version available online:
8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Sat Sep 11 15:29:22

This must be related to:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,28212.0.html

Patricio

daedalous

@daedalous:

Today, I repeated the tests with pfSense-2.0-BETA4-20100911-1502 (i386), but I got even worse results. Not only it didn't work, but the Gateway Status were always 'unknown'.

Same for me, demarchip, the devel team has made some change that affect gw groups, making impossible to get working load balance or failover.

ticket ~~#889~~, #876 explains the issue:
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/876

stramato

i'm using BETA 4 Sep 11 release now and Load Balancing seems not to work

jimp

Yes, it is broken at the moment, hopefully fixed soon.

jimp

What part of "it's broken at the moment" implied it should be fixed yet? :-)

jimp

I haven't had a chance to try it yet but there were some fixes checked in. If you update and then gitsync, and maybe reboot after that, it would be worth trying.

h20ray

hufft..
i still cant use load balance.. can you help me? sorry for my bad english

roi

@h20ray:

hufft..
i still cant use load balance.. can you help me? sorry for my bad english

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