HA Sync - Lab Testing Ideas.

Mitch_Sullo

Hi Team.

I want to test / practice PFSync and HA in a lab environment. I have a spare supermicro pizzabox appliance with 4 10gbe interfaces on the front. Any suggestions on rigging up a 2nd unit. As long as specs are similar and it also has enough interfaces we should be OK??

Thanks
Mitch.

Derelict

Everything needs to match. If you have:

WAN wan ix0
LAN lan ix1
OPT1 opt1 ix2.200
OPT2 opt2 ix2.201

The other node needs to be exactly the same. I generally use Status > Interfaces when checking for matches since that one page gives you the description (OPT1), the internal interface name (opt1), and the physical/virtual interface name (ix2.200).

Firewall rules are synced primary -> secondary to the same internal interface name (opt2 -> opt2).

States are synced bi-directionally to the physical/virtual interface (ix2.200 <-> ix2.200)

Technically the interface descriptive name can be different but why not make them match?

Things like amount of RAM, storage, CPU don't matter that much in a lab environment as long as you are aware of the limitations and work based on the size of the lower-capacity node.

Another option is just putting proxmox, etc on the supermicro and use VMs. then you can do hosts behind them, VPNs to other nodes, etc.

Mitch_Sullo

Thanks Sir! Really appreciated, I will let you know how I get on.

Mitch_Sullo

Hi Derelict.

Was able to get this setup. Worked a treat, easy as! Thanks for your help

Cheers
Mitch.