Load balancing explained
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Hello All,
Just to say firstly, psSense (1.2.3-release) is really working great at two school building locations! Thanks!
I am trying to get a handle on how the MULTI-WAN load balancing between the two wans actually happens?
I set these two machines up about 4 weeks before school was out so they got a 'real world' workout before next school year starts,FYI.Setup:
WAN1 = 1.5 / T1
WAN2 = 3.0/750kb
I have WAN2 weighted in the balancing entry of pfSense WAN2 X 2It seemed that the two wans were seeing very close to the same amount of traffic over a period of 24hrs.
The last couple weeks I have been updating linux servers along with about 30 workstations being used for summer school. It appears that OPT1/WAN2 is barely seeing any traffic,although WAN1 is maxed due to me downloading all kinds of update stuff.Is something like jperf to run on a remote server,what I need to do a few consecutive days to see what is happening, or could someone chime in with how to simulate a maxed out wan connection.
With the round-robbin effect it seems even with a few workstations running the wan's should be a little more balanced?
I am using the ISP's gateways for the monitor ip for the balancing and the two isp'd dns server numbers for the failover settings.I do NOT have the sticky connections checked.
Thanks,
Barry -
Solved
Hello All,
Wanted to do a follow up post on what resolved what I thought was a load balancing problem I was having with pfSense.
I decided to start tracing back to the IPS's router( That the pfSense machine is plugged into). Low and behold there was a problem with the ISP's dsl line coming into the building. The ISP tech had to monkey for quite a while with the NOC office and finally got the problem resolved.
The rrd graphs for the WAN now looks like it should.Thanks,
Barry