Squid and Dual WAN Load Balancing
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Hi all,
If I have read the forum posts correctly squid acting as a proxy server on the Load Balancer does not work. Correct?
Would it work if I put in a dedicated squid machine before the pfsense firewall/load balancer?
So it would be all pc pointing to proxy/squid, this sends packets on to pfsense/load balancer, which round robins them across dual WAN links.
Sound like a working solution?
Any advice or ideas are welcome.
Regards
Chris
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Yes this should work fine, but if you need any incoming routing it will be messy !
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Thanks,
trying to get this working now, but seem to not be getting out on pfsense box..
What all can i check out for? My ADSL modems are setup as routers, both netgear DG834's, they are handling there own dialing out and are connecting fine. DO i need to create NAT rules or anything else on them?
They are assigning IP's to each of the 2 WAN interfaces on the pfSense box, 192.168.100.x and 192.168.0.x
I can ping through to each modems IP from the pfsense box.
Somethign tells me its a routing issue…
Also where can i find the sticky connections option? think i am blind
Thanks in Advance
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Chris, sticky is on system - advanced under load balancing.
Does pfSense think they 2 interfaces are up (under status - load balancer)
Can you ping the 2 modems from a box on the LAN? (rather than from pfSense), if not, then pfSense isn't set up right.
Did you use the guide at http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/MultiWanVersion1.2?
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Thanks Pootie,
Can't tell you what happened but it suddenly started working….
But it is and looking good so far.
I don't have that under advanced tab at all... I did upgrade to latest release recently. I know it was there ounce upon a time.
Also RRD graphs seem to of stopped since upgrade.
Think I should "re-upgrade"?
Support and help here is great!
Next step to do though is to get WAN 1 as my prefered connection and try get more traffic down there. Any suggestions?
I did use the guide originally. Helped a lot.
Thanks