[pfSense Support] dynamic load balancing
Hi, I am wondering, if the following would be possible - and how to start with it. I have this SDSL and ADSL connection - in where our ADSL has a download limit of 25GB/month If one bypasses the 25GB - the connection drops from 10mbits to 64kbits ! How can I make pfSense see this, so if this happens the connection switches over to the SDSL connection (being 1mbit, still better than 64kbits). ps. the SDSL connection must be preserved as much as possible - so it only should jump to the SDSL, when the ADSL doesn't go any faster than 64kbits... (or if I can use an internal counter, that checks if the 25GB limit is passed - that's also ok) Would this be possible, and where to start ? Kind regards, Michel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] dynamic load balancing
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Michel Servaesmic...@mcmc.be wrote: Hi, I am wondering, if the following would be possible - and how to start with it. I have this SDSL and ADSL connection - in where our ADSL has a download limit of 25GB/month If one bypasses the 25GB - the connection drops from 10mbits to 64kbits ! How can I make pfSense see this, so if this happens the connection switches over to the SDSL connection (being 1mbit, still better than 64kbits). ps. the SDSL connection must be preserved as much as possible - so it only should jump to the SDSL, when the ADSL doesn't go any faster than 64kbits... (or if I can use an internal counter, that checks if the 25GB limit is passed - that's also ok) Would this be possible, and where to start ? Only if you want to write code or a script of some sort to detect that and automatically switch. That's somewhat involved though. No easy way to do that. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] dynamic load balancing
Ermal Luçi wrote: Not easy at all since you have to handle reboots, wrap arounds and some other things. I guess it is better to fund pfSense devs to implement this so you will have it supported on further releases too. Might be able to leverage the existing vnstat package to handle most of the 'heavy lifting' there. You could also write a script that say downloads a 1MB file from somewhere at 2AM each night, and if it takes drastically longer than it should, swap routes. Not sure how the pfSense integration would work though. K signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [pfSense Support] dynamic load balancing
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Chris Buechlerc...@pfsense.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Michel Servaesmic...@mcmc.be wrote: Hi, I am wondering, if the following would be possible - and how to start with it. I have this SDSL and ADSL connection - in where our ADSL has a download limit of 25GB/month If one bypasses the 25GB - the connection drops from 10mbits to 64kbits ! How can I make pfSense see this, so if this happens the connection switches over to the SDSL connection (being 1mbit, still better than 64kbits). ps. the SDSL connection must be preserved as much as possible - so it only should jump to the SDSL, when the ADSL doesn't go any faster than 64kbits... (or if I can use an internal counter, that checks if the 25GB limit is passed - that's also ok) Would this be possible, and where to start ? Not easy at all since you have to handle reboots, wrap arounds and some other things. I guess it is better to fund pfSense devs to implement this so you will have it supported on further releases too. Only if you want to write code or a script of some sort to detect that and automatically switch. That's somewhat involved though. No easy way to do that. -- Ermal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] dynamic load balancing
could you force squid + transparent proxying to record traffic usage and use some clever squid configs and cron to change behaviour? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] dynamic load balancing
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 03:58, Paul Mansfieldit-admin-pfse...@taptu.com wrote: could you force squid + transparent proxying to record traffic usage and use some clever squid configs and cron to change behaviour? That assumes that nearly all of your traffic is HTTP; perhaps valid for some users, but completely not so for technical users. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] dynamic load balancing
Only if you want to write code or a script of some sort to detect that and automatically switch. That's somewhat involved though. No easy way to do that. Thank you for the replies... guess I'll first see how things go from here - might be better to upgrade the ADSL as soon as it reaches it's limit anyway... This question belongs to the stupid questions - but I thought, maybe there is an easy way to do this. I still have to implement the pfSense someday - but my provider only changes IP during the day... just need to search for a good day to make this happen. (the change of IP has nothing to do with me implementing pfSense - but since this would cause troubles for everyone involved, I gather that this might be the best time to setup the pfSense anyway) Kind regards, and again thank you for looking into this one (at everyone) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] dynamic load balancing
Michel Servaes wrote: I am wondering, if the following would be possible - and how to start with it. I have this SDSL and ADSL connection - in where our ADSL has a download limit of 25GB/month If one bypasses the 25GB - the connection drops from 10mbits to 64kbits ! How can I make pfSense see this, so if this happens the connection switches over to the SDSL connection (being 1mbit, still better than 64kbits). You might be able to pull a traffic total from the RRD file for WAN, but it wouldn't necessarily be realtime, you'd have to have a cron script check every so often, and then trigger some other script to actually run some commands to switch. This assumes, of course, that there is no accidental loss of RRD graph data for some reason. Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
