WAN Link limitation
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Hi , how many WAN links i can configure to load and balance the Traffic on my Pfsense which i will be hosting on VM.
i have requirment for 5000 Users with 18 1Gbps WAN Links. and i need to have 20 Gbps LAN Link.
pleased suggest required Hardware for VM deployment and confirm i can configure 18 WAN links.
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@indiankid said in WAN Link limitation:
Hi , how many WAN links i can configure to load and balance the Traffic on my Pfsense which i will be hosting on VM.
This will be solely dictated by the hardware you have on the VM host. You may find that having TNSR ahead of the pfSense firewall might be your best solution.
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@rcoleman-netgate so i can use 18 WAN links and do load balance if i had good VM to deploy Pfsense
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Are all 5000 users in one LAN network?
What they are doing? eMail and surf or more?I would set up 4 pfSense with 5 WAN Ports for each.
So you need an Xeon and plenty of RAM to sort any of the
VMs pending on their given job and load. Snort, squid, pfblocker-ng, squidguard,..... -
Is this a single site, or multiple buildings ? 18 x 1Gbps links to a single site sounds a bit strange, assuming the provider is giving you a business service ? Most ISP's would consolidate that into dual 10G connections.
Also how do you plan to distribute the 5000 users reasonably evenly across multiple PfSense ? LAN connections can easily be separated depending on where they are connected, but you will have challenges with WiFi clients, unless they are allocated specific SSID's & authentication.
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@pwood999 Hi, it is an accommodation project for people.
I have more than 7000-8000 Users in one place.
Yes, i can create multiple SSIDs with different passwords.
But all i want to manage with one Pfsense.
i will deploy it in Virtual Machine mode and create multiple interfaces.
ISP can't provide 10G lines to that location. so we need to go for multiple lines.But single Pfsense can handle all these users and ISP connections??
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@indiankid Others will have better idea for PF WAN scaling. Potentially you could use 10G Ports, with multiple VLAN WAN configs, but not 100% sure.
You will probably need to plan scaling for the PfSense hardware, and adjust max states for that many users.
You may need proper Netgate support for this, so open an account with them.
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@indiankid Have you looked at tnsr? I suspect between tnsr and multiple pf installs you'd be best situated.