Load Balancing: difficulties with www.rapidshare.com
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I use PFsense to balance 3 wans, and the PCs behind PFsense is having difficulty dowloading files from rapidshare free, because of the round robin load balancing. sticky connection make me just using the single Wan.
any idea to solve this ?
sticky connection make me just using the single Wan
ps: it ok with premium rapidshare account
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I have dual WAN setup as load balance (Round Robbin) and I have not had that issue at all.
If I am not mistaken, each new session or connection will rotate to a different gateway (Round Robbin). So downloading a file from Rapid Share or anywhere else would only have one connection and traffic would pass only one gateway. The only way that downloading a file would use all WAN connections is if your web browser supported multiple connections. -
Use policy based routing on port 80 for things like rapidshare.de/com etc
I found the reason this problem occurs with rapidshare (on the freebie download link atleast) is that when you reach the countdown timer page on a rapidshare link and then proceed to download, its possible that pfsense could use an alternative gateway and then you get an error on rapidshares page.
Either policy based routing or hitting refresh until pfsense goes out the correct gateway it initially connected to on rapidshare should fix it.
sorry if this msg is incoherent, typing this very late.
slam
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Yes that's right,
that slipped my mind. Thanks Slam, I only ran into that once. -
:D thanx 4 all,
Use policy based routing on port 80 for things like rapidshare.de/com etc
slam
if i use this way, it will just use 1 gateway(1 public IP). so it will be 1 free download session at the same time.
with 3 WANs, I can download 3 simultaneous free download, by waiting for luckyness… on my download click will be routed at the same gateway :(
Can we hold the state for longer so the same page will be always routed at the same gateway ?
I have dual WAN setup as load balance (Round Robbin) and I have not had that issue at all.
If I am not mistaken, each new session or connection will rotate to a different gateway (Round Robbin). So downloading a file from Rapid Share or anywhere else would only have one connection and traffic would pass only one gateway. The only way that downloading a file would use all WAN connections is if your web browser supported multiple connections.Any idea for multiple connection browser support ???
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Any idea for multiple connection browser support ???
The only thing I know that takes advantage of Multi-WAN are peer to peer applications.
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download with Download manager can also takes advantage, especially server with pararel download allowed