4 ISP Failover kill states with different protocols

[janycr]

Hi , I did setup failover with 4 ISP, when I unplugged the 1st ISP everything move to 2nd ISP, however if I have a ssh session to an external server this session dies immediately, it doesn't recover even if I have internet access from the same computer through 2nd ISP, I did check the states table, and basically the failover kills all connections and flushes the states when it move from 1st ISP to 2nd ISP, and instead of sending a socket close message to the LAN connection it kills the socket connection, any way to set the pfsense to send close socket message when failover takes place?

Thank you

[janycr]

Please help me… I really appreciate any idea or possible test to solve this....

Thank you

[dhatz]

@janycr:

basically the failover kills all connections and flushes the states when it move from 1st ISP to 2nd ISP, and instead of sending a socket close message to the LAN connection it kills the socket connection

This is an interesting question and apparently there are applications that are a bit slow to recover …

Based on a quick check of pfctl manpage I don't think it's possible, but we'd have to wait for the developers to offer a definitive answer, because the function filter_delete_states_for_down_gateways in /etc/inc/interfaces is using a -b option that I can't find in the manpage ...

[dhatz]

Hm, after a little googling it seems that -b is indeed pfsense-specific, check the discussion at http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8

[janycr]

Thanks for answer, I did read it but at the last post one of developers send this feature for future development…., any idea if theres a work around for this? or other product I can test?

Thank you