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    PfSense 2.1 Floating rules for Multi Wan doesn't work.

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      SaFi
      last edited by

      Hello folks,

      After about 8 months past, did someone try the new release of pf (2.1.1-RELEASE) to check if the issue still exist?
      for myself I've removed squid for a long time ago waiting a one's hero report that it's was fixed.
      I will keeping my eyes on this topic and I will waiting that HERO

      God bless all of you

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        hyrol
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        Has anyone tried pfSense 2.1.2 Release with Squid Proxy for Multi-Wan Load-Balacing.

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          georgio777
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          @hyrol:

          Has anyone tried pfSense 2.1.2 Release with Squid Proxy for Multi-Wan Load-Balacing.

          I am on the latest version on pfSense and there has not been a fix yet to the issue. Still suffering from the same problem.

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            timthetortoise
            last edited by

            If you're only looking for failover capabilities, here's a workaround.

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              hyrol
              last edited by

              @georgio777:

              @hyrol:

              Has anyone tried pfSense 2.1.2 Release with Squid Proxy for Multi-Wan Load-Balacing.

              I am on the latest version on pfSense and there has not been a fix yet to the issue. Still suffering from the same problem.

              Hi georgio777 thanks for info.

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                georgio777
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                @timthetortoise:

                If you're only looking for failover capabilities, here's a workaround.

                By any chance do you know if it is possible to maintain Load Balancing for all traffic except HTTP traffic and use Failover for HTTP? The reason is that if the default gateway is down, Squid will stop working, if I can take the advantages of Failover only for the Squid traffic without stop using Load Balancing, that will be great.

                Thanks!

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                  timthetortoise
                  last edited by

                  You should be able to use standard gateways like normal for everything but HTTP. Floating rules are not broken, as evidenced by setting a rule for any source to any destination HTTP with the active gateway being something other than the default gateway. At this point squid is unable to pass traffic because it's trying to push it out the default gateway and it's actually being sent out another.

                  As long as you have default gateway switching enabled, squid will switch to that gateway when it is restarted. I've tested this and it's working great.

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                    Daouid
                    last edited by

                    Hello !
                    Any news?
                    I test an upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.1.4 and it don't work. Squid is very slow, and the http port don't work.
                    We can't update pfsense :-(

                    Thanks a lot

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                      arclegna
                      last edited by

                      Same question here, im on pfsense 2.1.4 and wondering if any solution yet to squid (no transparency) + loadbalance + failover, thanks in advance.

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                        klazoid
                        last edited by

                        I came back hoping that after one year there would be a fix but  :'(
                        Wasting 2 lines atm as long as the default gateway doesn't go down.

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                          Smithes
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                          I setup Multi-WAN like shown in the official tutorial…. Works only for Connections without squid. And works very fine. But I also need squid. So I installed the squid 3.3-dev package from the package-list, because squid supports the "radom" command since 3.2.
                          I know it is a dev-package, but I run it on a wlan-network with 5000 Users on peek and its runs very fine. Also with squidguard.
                          I also know that there is no failover for squid, if one of the lines will be offline, but that is not important for me, because the two lines are from the same provider and come over the same cable. It’s a cable internet connection from unitymedia(Germany).

                          I added these lines, for split the traffic to two lines. *1

                          acl fiftyPercent random 0.5
                          tcp_outgoing_address 192.0.2.1 fiftyPercent
                          tcp_outgoing_address 192.0.2.2

                          *1: The information’s found here: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AclRandom
                          greets Smithes

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                            thanhk43
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                            i am using 2.1.5-RELEASE and squid 2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.4 and have the same issue, squid  only work with defaul gateway, anyone have any idea ?

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                              Kababayan
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                              Work around will be too easy if you are using virtual, in fact there are lot of ways with virtual setup.

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                                alxbob
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                                Does acl random provide failover if one gateway is down?

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                                  firatnemis
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                                  If all the modems has got the same speed what should write custom options for equal speed ?

                                  @ruggero:

                                  first install squid3-dev  from available packages.

                                  ++++++in this way you can use configuration directive acl random .
                                  from squid doc :
                                  changes in 3.2 acl : random

                                  New type random. Pseudo-randomly match requests based on a configured probability .

                                  now you can do all the configuration you need for multiwan in Custom options - Custom setting of proxy server.

                                  in my situation ( 3 wan ) :

                                  "
                                  acl venticinque random 1/4
                                  acl settantacinquediv2 random 0.5

                                  tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.4.254 venticinque

                                  tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.3.254  settantacinquediv2

                                  tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.2.254

                                  "

                                  192.168.4.254 = ipv4 address wan 1
                                  192.168.3.254 = ipv4 address wan 2
                                  192.168.2.254 = ipv4 address wan 3

                                  random 1/4 = 25 % = wan1 25% of traffic
                                  random 0.5 = (100-25)/2 = wan2 37,5 % of traffic
                                  else = wan3 37,5 % of traffic

                                  i do this because my 3 wan are not equal.

                                  in case of 2 wan :

                                  "
                                  acl cinquanta random 0.5

                                  tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.4.254 cinquanta

                                  tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.2.254

                                  "

                                  you do not need extra rule on firewall ( floating rule ) .
                                  Also it bypass gateway groups.

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                                    mesro09
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                                    hello Everybody
                                    is there anyone to help with explanation about multiwan with squid 3.4 non transparent (working with wpad)
                                    many thanks

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