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    4 wan pfsense not loadbalancing accurately

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Routing and Multi WAN
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    • DerelictD
      Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
      last edited by

      8 WAN Load Balance 2.3.3

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      Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
      A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
      DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
      Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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        tripplex
        last edited by

        I see.  So what do you recommend we use to do the speed test then?

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        • DerelictD
          Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
          last edited by

          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.

          Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
          A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
          DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
          Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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            tripplex
            last edited by

            I see. Thanks

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