4 wan pfsense not loadbalancing accurately
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@ccmks that is so true. It works with 3 wan, because i had 3 wan before and it was load balancing fairly accurate but its not working properly since i upgraded to 4 wan.
I thought I am not the only person who experience this. I am glad someone confirmed it. Now we know pfSense has limitation up to 3 WAN for load balancing. It can be considered as limitation or bug. Someone from development has to look at it.
I don't think many people are using more than 3 WAN besides us. Too bad, I have to use 4 WAN due to bad internet connection here.
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I am not the only person who experience this.
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In each gateway set the Weight values to something other than 1.
Mine originally used 1 & 4 for the two WAN's (200Mb & 60Mb), but balancing seems to work much better using 2 & 8
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Have a look at the attachment, as you can see the traffic graphs are not reporting the correct figures while a load is on the wans. Its the same on the lan.
What is the cause of this issue how can i resolve it.
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Try using a different speed test site such as Speediest.net Your speed-test only shows 19Mbps which is probably just using one of the WAN's for the test.
Set each GW to the same Tier, and in the Advance setting set the Weights all = 2.
Also, what external IP's are you using for the GW Monitor ? They should all be different as far as I know.
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Looking at this thread - erm guys, using a random speedtest is absolutely INVALID way to test load balancing. It's about as "valid" as trying to lagg interfaces and wondering why the bandwidth did not double/triple/… when transferring a file from a single computer.
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QFT:
"It's about as "valid" as trying to lagg interfaces and wondering why the bandwidth did not double/triple/… when transferring a file from a single computer."
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It should be reporting the correct figures while under load. I have 70 devices connected. During the peak hours the network is under heavy load and the traffic graphs only shoes some kilobits being used, they hardly go up. So I am wondering if its because of the access point being used, but then again that shouldn't matter whether wireless or lan.
Only thing I can say is the traffic graph needs some work and the loadbalancing also.
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It should be reporting the correct figures while under load. I have 70 devices connected. During the peak hours the network is under heavy load and the traffic graphs only shoes some kilobits being used, they hardly go up. So I am wondering if its because of the access point being used, but then again that shouldn't matter whether wireless or lan.
Only thing I can say is the traffic graph needs some work and the loadbalancing also.
Again, this is can be considered as a bug. If the developer can't fix it then I will consider pfSense has multi-wan limitation above 3 WAN.
I also have multiple device actively using internet and only seems the first 2 of my 4 WAN are active and rest of them stay idle.
Let alone multi-WAN, I also have problem with sticky connection which is defeat purpose of having load balancing if I have to setup fail-over for HTTPS (you can't do fail-over for HTTPS for non standard 443 port which I used to manage multiple remote router with various port).
I ended up purchasing third party router to do loadbalancing and my pfSense just for internal router and VPN.
So sad for pfSense which it's loadbalancing I use to proud is gone.
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IDK, guys. This is T-Rex-ing a mix of traffic through a 4 Tier-1 LOADBALANCE group.
Yes it's 2.4-BETA but that's what I have set up right now.
Looks load-balanced to me.
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i see so you think we should all use 2.4 beta?
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No. It's just what I have available to test in this lab right now. I have no reason to think the results would be any different in 2.3.3. Which I see you are not running since you have the old-style traffic graphs. Before calling out a bug you should at least be on the current version.
Similar results with 8 interfaces in LB, btw.
Speed tests are a lousy way to test load balancing. T-Rex is generating about 350K states.
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8 WAN Load Balance 2.3.2-p1
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8 WAN Load Balance 2.3.3
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I see. So what do you recommend we use to do the speed test then?
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Actual, distributed traffic.
There is no way for the firewall to know what a state is going to do. Download 80MByte/sec or camp on a slow IMAP account that gets 2 messages per day.
Load Balancing distributes states according to the gateway weights.
As you can plainly see, it works great for lots of states.
For one or two states a speed test site might generate, not so much.
Real workloads do pretty well with load balancing.
Don't over-think it.
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I see. Thanks
