Setting up multiwan
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Hi all,
I have been trying to setup multiwan with loadbalancing (I know "perfect" loadbalancing is not possible) with hopefully failover.
My situation is like the following. I have a 10.x.x.x network. On 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.1.1 I have two DSL routers hooked up to independent connections. They perform routing and NAT to the internet.
I have setup pfsense on 10.1.0.2, created a gateway group including the two other gateways. However, when I change my LAN rule to use the gateway group, things die; I can't connect to IM (ICQ, Gtalk), and traceroute goes:
$ traceroute www.uab.es
traceroute to www.uab.es (158.109.168.60), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 zyxel.sprawl (10.0.0.1) 4.093 ms router-cesar.sprawl (10.0.1.1) 6.324 ms zyxel.sprawl (10.0.0.1) 5.312 ms^CMeaning that packets go to either gateway for a single host- I would guess that I want "sticky" connections; i.e. unless there's a gateway down, outbound connections are loadbalanced, but connections to a single host always follow the same route.
I have looked around, but I haven't seen anything…
Ideas? Is there any guide about how to set up this?
Alex
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That's not for 1.3, I can't seem to find the way to activate sticky connections.
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That's not for 1.3, I can't seem to find the way to activate sticky connections.
To turn on sticky connections on 1.3 follow these instructions.
1. Log in
2. go to System->Advanced
3. Click "Miscellaneous" tab
4. Top check box is "Use sticky connections" check it and save.
5. Done!
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I just tried the same scenario. But whenever I turn on sticky connections, after some time I start getting timeouts and nothing goes out.
Firewall logs show nothing. It just doesnt work. If I restart the firewall all is well until it happens again. Hardware is a PIII/733 with 786 RAM. The 2 WANs are 14mbit/1mbit DSLs. At the most heavy usage it had about 400 states active. This used to happen with 1.2 too but not that often.
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1.3 should now work a bit better.