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    Load Balancing wont work, in my Opinion

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Routing and Multi WAN
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    • pttP Offline
      ptt Rebel Alliance
      last edited by

      If you do this:

      if you go to:
      www.pfsense.org/ip.php
      and you refresh the page fast then you will see that it shows one time the IP of WAN1 and the other time the IP of WAN2. This is Round Robin Load Balancing. If this works then LB is working as much as it can with your environment/ISP environment.

      Did you see your IP changing ?

      From your attached IMG, i see no traffic in your WAN….

      Can you attach an screenshot of your outbound NAT config ?

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      • D Offline
        divotion
        last edited by

        Only Sometimes i can see the ip changing … not often...

        Here My Nat outgoing image and my network diagramm...

        network_diagramm.jpg_thumb
        network_diagramm.jpg
        outbound_nat.gif_thumb
        outbound_nat.gif

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        • D Offline
          divotion
          last edited by

          Not i have Loadbalance… but only of 50mbit/s... the other 100mbit/s is untached... hmmm...

          here screens

          lan_new.gif
          lan_new.gif_thumb
          wan1_new.gif
          wan1_new.gif_thumb
          wan2_new.gif
          wan2_new.gif_thumb

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          • D Offline
            divotion
            last edited by

            the seems to loadbalance the 50mbit/s line or the 100mbit/s line… not together...

            here screens for loadbalance the 100mbit/s line...

            lan_new2.gif
            lan_new2.gif_thumb
            wan1_new2.gif
            wan1_new2.gif_thumb
            wan2_new2.gif
            wan2_new2.gif_thumb

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            • N Offline
              Nachtfalke
              last edited by

              Do you have "Sticky connections" DISABLED ? It must be disabled.

              What I often do to test if Load Balancing is really working I go to
              maps.google.com and scroll in and out on different landscapes. When then having a look on the traffic graphs I can see bandwidth on all my WAN connections.

              In general the configuration looks correct. And if www.pfsense.orf/ip.php is working then LB is working.
              Do you use any other package on pfsense ? squid, squdguard, havp ?

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              • D Offline
                divotion
                last edited by

                Hi Nachtfalke

                No i dont use other packages…

                I try with a fresh installation... yesterday chose a new Account by newsdamon with 50 connections... same failure...

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                • N Offline
                  Nachtfalke
                  last edited by

                  which version of pfsense are you using ? 2.1 or 2.0.x ?

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                  • D Offline
                    divotion
                    last edited by

                    i have hat 2.0.2 stable and then i have tried with the 2.1 beta….

                    now i installed 2.0.2 stable again... no luck

                    Loadbalancing is working... but not with 150mbit/s... cant unserstand this...

                    screens of loadbalancing works:

                    1.gif
                    1.gif_thumb
                    2.gif
                    2.gif_thumb
                    3.gif
                    3.gif_thumb

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                    • C Offline
                      cmb
                      last edited by

                      The last screenshot looks a lot like what would happen if you had a 100 Mb LAN NIC, and/or a 100 Mb NIC on the client machine, or a 100 Mb switch on LAN in general. Is everything involved on gigabit internally?

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                      • D Offline
                        divotion
                        last edited by

                        I think now with my optinal Test, that is not a Pfsense Issue…

                        I have made an additional Netzwork Interface opt2 (lan2) thats route to opt1 (wan2)...
                        The lan roule i set to wan1...

                        then i attached another pc to opt2 for wan2
                        and my static pc on lan to wan1

                        the issue is the same... maybe the center is not allowed for more then 100mbit/s... i would tell next week...

                        here screens of pc 1 to wan and pc 2 to wan 2:

                        Foto.gif
                        Foto.gif_thumb
                        Foto2.gif
                        Foto2.gif_thumb
                        rule1.gif
                        rule1.gif_thumb
                        rule2.gif
                        rule2.gif_thumb
                        rule1.gif
                        rule1.gif_thumb
                        rule2.gif
                        rule2.gif_thumb

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                          divotion
                          last edited by

                          @cmb:

                          The last screenshot looks a lot like what would happen if you had a 100 Mb LAN NIC, and/or a 100 Mb NIC on the client machine, or a 100 Mb switch on LAN in general. Is everything involved on gigabit internally?

                          Yes it is. on Site Pfsense / Fritzbox / PC …

                          Here Screen:

                          dash.gif
                          dash.gif_thumb

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                          • D Offline
                            divotion
                            last edited by

                            Hello dear PFSENSE Forum

                            The Problem was not Pfsense and Loadbalancing issue. It was that the Managed Switch by the technical instance was 100mbit/s…

                            Not the give me today a new Line in my House... Now is working with 150mbit/s...

                            Thank you all for your help...

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