Scalability

stoney88888 · Jan 13, 2007, 6:37 PM

My question is will pfsense work in the following scenerios:

1. Support a couple of thousand computers? Is it robust enough on the right hardware?
2. Support for multiple pfsense firewalls in a cluster for redundancy? I would like to setup two firewalls for redudancy having one of my DS3 going to one firewall and the other DS3 to another and do fail-over/load balancing between the two.

I am very interested to see if anyone is using pfsense in a mid-size to large environment.

stoney

sai · Jan 14, 2007, 7:24 AM

[1] Interesting post here http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=308/11
How much bandwidth is a DS3?
[2] failover, loadbalancing http://www.pfsense.com/mirror.php?section=tutorials/carp/carp-cluster-new.htm

yoda715 · Jan 14, 2007, 9:40 AM

@stoney88888:

My question is will pfsense work in the following scenerios:

1. Support a couple of thousand computers? Is it robust enough on the right hardware?
2. Support for multiple pfsense firewalls in a cluster for redundancy? I would like to setup two firewalls for redudancy having one of my DS3 going to one firewall and the other DS3 to another and do fail-over/load balancing between the two.

I am very interested to see if anyone is using pfsense in a mid-size to large environment.

stoney

There are several people that use pfSense with users into the thousand range. With the right hardware pfSense can certainly handle a couple of thousand users.

stoney88888 · Jan 15, 2007, 5:35 PM

Thanks for the posts. DS3=45 mb we have two servicing the site. Now it is a manual fail-over by switching cables.