How to Check my Load Balancing is Working or Not?
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Hi,
I am using Pfsense 2.0-RC3 (i386) built on Fri Aug 12 16:23:11 EDT 2011. Its working fine. My Fail over function is also working fine, But I want make sure my load balancing is really working or not? is anybody there to help me? ::) ::)
Nuwan
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www.pfsense.org/ip.php
refreshing the page several times should display you yor different WAN addresses.
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Use this for checking it
That link is speedtest.net -
WOW, Its working. Thanks
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Mmmhh. Mine does not seem to change.
What am I doing wrong?Gateways are set both as Tier 1 under System => Routing => Groups
OPT1 Gateway is given a weight of 2 and WAN Gateway is given a weight of 1 under System => Routing => GatewaysI only see the IP for OPT1 Gateway.
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Is your opt1 double as fast as wangw?
How did you implement loadbalance? -
Yes. OPT1 is approx twice as fast as the WAN. 3x for outbound.
OPT1 gateway is set as the default and has a weight of 2.I used the recommendations for load balancing under pfsense 2.0 RC3, ie do nothing but
(i) define a group for both gateways under system => routing => groups,
(ii) change the rule from LAN to Gateway under firewall => rules => lan so it uses the gateway group,
(iii) enable both checkboxes under System => advanced => misc for "Use sticky connections" and "Allow default gateway switching", and
(iv) enable a rule for HTTPS to always go out through one Gateway (to avoid issues with https logins), ie everything HTTPS from LANnet goes through one gateway.Why is it not working?
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Your https rule is not going to work, it has to be above the default rule.
But the real question, i have no glue -
Your https rule is not going to work, it has to be above the default rule.
But the real question, i have no glueThank you.
I don't think the weighting works properly … and I used the "my ip" check countless times at this point, even having everyone in our location (10+ people) checking it.
I understand that with a weight of 1:2 for WAN to OPT1, it should pick OPT1 for the first connection, WAN for the second and OPT1 again for the third. Is that not correct? I do believe that is the problem.
I played around with the weight:- if I set it 1:1 it clearly prefers the WAN, probably ~7+ times out of 10
- if I set it 1:2 it clearly prefers the OPT1, probably ~9 times out of 10
- if I set it to 2:3 it still prefers the OPT1, though less than with 1:2 and much closer to the desired weight ... maybe 7-8 out of 10.
I can live with my 2:3 setting (which gets a result close to my desired 1:2) but it is annoying that this feature does not work properly (or at least does not work as one would expect it to work).
Now I only need to figure out why the VPN functionality does not work as set out in the guides ....
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You could post that problem here or open new topic