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    Multi-Wan failover realibility with busy links

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Routing and Multi WAN
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      tomlobato
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      Hi all!

      I`ve setup Pfsense with multi-wan and it is working fine in first tests.
      But my experience with multi-wan on other plataforms and scenarios
      says that the problems come up when the links are too busy for
      failover ping test to work well, so the system "thinks" the ISP is
      inactive and desactive that route, wrongly.

      I`d like to hear opnions/experiences/cases about Pfsense behavior
      regarding this issue. Failover in Pfsense really works realiably
      when links are too busy?

      Tom Lobato
      tinecon.com.br

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        eri--
        last edited by

        You can add QoS to the game. With HFSC you can aleviate this problem by guaranteeing ping to have its needed share always.

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          tomlobato
          last edited by

          Hi ermal!
          thank you

          good choice, it is what Im implementing on linux, with some trouble. But Id like to hear cases about pfsense behavior in this scenario without
          further configuration (qos, etc). Or, maybe, opnion like "pfsense works well
          in this situation, but only with qos configured".

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