RE: [pfSense Support] LB and pre-emption on CARP?
So its one or the other. Not both. That clears things up a lot ! thanks! -Original Message- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:35 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] LB and pre-emption on CARP? On 9/29/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 1) What does the load balancing option in CARP page do? It's a poor way of load balancing based on the HASH AFAIK. From the manpage: net.inet.carp.arpbalance Balance local traffic using ARP. 2) If load balancing is enable on the CARP page do we still have to setup the LB service? I'm pretty sure you will want to go with our load balancing system that uses slbd. 3) In the LB service .. do I setup the virtual IP(124) into the LB pool ( LAN GW to WAN ? ) Or do I use the 2 physical GW IPS of the routers (125 and 126)? See http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=IncomingLoadBalancing and http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=OutgoingLoadBalancing for examples. 4) If I use pre-emption, one is master another is slave, does it still LB? It seems from the reading room .. only masters LB? i.e. to LB using CARP pre-emption needs to be off so you can have 2 masters? Not really sure. I've never really used the arp balancing feature as I hear that it doesn't do a good job.. But this may have changed recently. Scott - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[pfSense Support] LB and pre-emption on CARP?
HI The setup: Router2 Secondary PPPoe WAN - 172.16.24.125 - | | - Virtual 172.16.24.124 Router1 Primary | PPPoe WAN - 172.16.24.126- A few quick questions please .. 1) What does the load balancing option in CARP page do? 2) If load balancing is enable on the CARP page do we still have to setup the LB service? 3) In the LB service .. do I setup the virtual IP(124) into the LB pool ( LAN GW to WAN ? ) Or do I use the 2 physical GW IPS of the routers (125 and 126)? 4) If I use pre-emption, one is master another is slave, does it still LB? It seems from the reading room .. only masters LB? i.e. to LB using CARP pre-emption needs to be off so you can have 2 masters? While the tutorial is helpful, it doesnt really clarify how this stuff all ties together tx Ivan.
Re: [pfSense Support] LB and pre-emption on CARP?
On 9/29/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 1) What does the load balancing option in CARP page do? It's a poor way of load balancing based on the HASH AFAIK. From the manpage: net.inet.carp.arpbalance Balance local traffic using ARP. 2) If load balancing is enable on the CARP page do we still have to setup the LB service? I'm pretty sure you will want to go with our load balancing system that uses slbd. 3) In the LB service .. do I setup the virtual IP(124) into the LB pool ( LAN GW to WAN ? ) Or do I use the 2 physical GW IPS of the routers (125 and 126)? See http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=IncomingLoadBalancing and http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=OutgoingLoadBalancing for examples. 4) If I use pre-emption, one is master another is slave, does it still LB? It seems from the reading room .. only masters LB? i.e. to LB using CARP pre-emption needs to be off so you can have 2 masters? Not really sure. I've never really used the arp balancing feature as I hear that it doesn't do a good job.. But this may have changed recently. Scott - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
