2.0 One Wan with multi pppoe loadbalance
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Would this be possible at all? Have tried it and read, but got stuck. Any input or ideas would be appreciated.
The idea is to use multiple ADSL routers set as bridge on one wan interface, connecting through them with PPPoE and load balancing the PPPoE connections on PF Sense box. Main reason for this is, at this time i want to do it with eight ADSL lines and you just do not get a motherboard that does nine lan cards, also would be much less caballing and neater this way. -
16 port switch and vlans?
I've got 10 interfaces on my box.
It's hard to see how two pppoe connections could share the same interface, though I've never tried it. How far did you get?
Steve
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Hi thanks for the response. GAve me a few new ideas. :) Just never thought of it that way. Will have to use a switch to accommodate all the lan's from ADSL routers. Could just as well use Vlans, however you would then probably have to create PPPoE on ADSL router, which i have found to be rather unreliable.
Did the same setup with four ADSL's and four usb lan interfaces, but usb lan never really worked correct. Actually does this setup with mikrotik router, wher PPPoE is used as a interface, but would like to test PF sense because of the build in QOS and would also would like to see if transparent squid would function with such a setup.
The problem i can not overcome is how to create a usable interface that would use PPPoE and still be used with load balancing without using a lot of lan interfaces from PF Sense box.
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Its still not clear to me what you want to achieve.
Though i have tested boxes with 4000 interfaces so that should work actually.For multiple pppoe sections its better to put them under vlans and each its own interface.
It would be possible to use the same underlying interface without vlans but its not supported on the GUI and really its messy and error prone. -
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4000 interfaces
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Could just as well use Vlans, however you would then probably have to create PPPoE on ADSL router
I don't see why. Having a managed switch with 16 VLANs is the same as having 16 individual NICs. You would still setup pppoe connections from pfSense. Am I missing something? :-\
Steve
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Thanks alot for your response. Relay appreciate. :D
Ok Ermal, what i wanted to be able to do, is use one physical lan interface and make multiple PPPoE connections from it through different ADSL routers, will have to use a switch any way to connect all of this and tfor this reason stephenw10 Vlan solution makes perfect sense, I then wanted to use this PPPoE interface/connection and load balance them.
Was the 4000 ports actual physical lan ports, where you could actually plug a lan cable into? Would be something to see and wire, if it was. :)To answer you Steve, was actually more of a question, 8) but now that i been pondering on this, it actually is quite logical, you are 100% correct, would be able to make PPPoE from PF Sense.
Will do stephenw10 setup. Stephen, do you make use of proxy as well or just the load balancing?
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I just gave that as an example of a box with 10 interfaces.
I have two WAN interfaces using PPPoE and ADSL/VDSL modems and use the others for various internal subnets. I still have 2-3 interfaces unused.I'm using policy based routing and load balancing. I not currently running a proxy.
Steve
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Thanks Steve. Always interesting to see how other people does it. Like to see experiment and see what is possible, but this cause a lot of head scratching and little sleep. ::)
