<![CDATA[MultiWAN with same gateway, sticky connections drops almost 50% of traffic]]>In a multiwan setup (load balancing), with pppoe and same gateway, enabling sticky connections causes some (50%+) of the connections to be droped.

When sticky enabled if you open a web page, some loads and some don't.

I've tested sticky in 2.0 betas, 2.0 final and now in a 2.0.1 clean installation, never worked for me.

Any advice how to troubleshoot this? Are sticky connections working fine for anyone with multiwan with same gateway in the wans?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/45530/multiwan-with-same-gateway-sticky-connections-drops-almost-50-of-trafficRSS for NodeMon, 16 Mar 2026 11:11:22 GMTSat, 02 Jun 2012 14:07:59 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to MultiWAN with same gateway, sticky connections drops almost 50% of traffic on Sat, 02 Jun 2012 22:07:41 GMT]]>Sticky with multiple PPPoE with the same gateway isn't going to work correctly.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/339743https://forum.netgate.com/post/339743Sat, 02 Jun 2012 22:07:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to MultiWAN with same gateway, sticky connections drops almost 50% of traffic on Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:41:13 GMT]]>Setup works fine with same gateway with sticky disabled, enabling sticky is causing the problems with dropped connections.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/339704https://forum.netgate.com/post/339704Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:41:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to MultiWAN with same gateway, sticky connections drops almost 50% of traffic on Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:27:27 GMT]]>iirc PPPoE is a special case, where having the same gateway on more than one links works (for pfsense v2.0.1+).

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/339702https://forum.netgate.com/post/339702Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:27:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to MultiWAN with same gateway, sticky connections drops almost 50% of traffic on Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:21:23 GMT]]>Not sure for PPPoE but as far as I know MuliWAN never works as long as all links use the same gateway.
Sticky connections has nothing to do with that.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/339700https://forum.netgate.com/post/339700Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:21:23 GMT