Re: 4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-08-04 Thread Marco Pfatschbacher
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:15:25PM +0200, Federico wrote: > Rosen Iliev wrote: > > Hi Federico, > > > > Did you try to change the balancing mode to ip-unicast or ip-stealth? > > > > from man carp(4) > > I just tried with ip-unicast, but both machines stop working. > Do I have to think it's a swi

Re: 4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-08-04 Thread Federico
Rosen Iliev wrote: > Hi Federico, > > Did you try to change the balancing mode to ip-unicast or ip-stealth? > > from man carp(4) I just tried with ip-unicast, but both machines stop working. Do I have to think it's a switch related problem? With ip-stealth, always only one machine replies (unti

Re: 4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-07-16 Thread Rosen Iliev
Hi Federico, Did you try to change the balancing mode to ip-unicast or ip-stealth? from man carp(4) IP balancing is activated by setting the *balancing* mode to /ip/. This is the recommended default setting. In this mode, carp uses a multicast MAC address, so that a switch sends incoming traf

Re: 4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-07-16 Thread Federico
> active/active pfsync works absolutely fine, if you have some way to > send traffic to both firewalls. one way you can do that is if you run > OSPF on the firewalls and the router/s in front of them and enable > multipath. Ok, but I'd like that firewalls share their load, so the traffic coming fr

Re: 4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-07-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-07-15, Federico wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> looks like the same thing as in PR 6084. > > > Yes, but it's still in open state, noone replied at that ticket. yes, nobody fixed it yet. > Besides, dlg worte about active/active in 4.6 introducing the "defer" > tag, as you can see he

Re: 4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-07-15 Thread Federico
Stuart Henderson wrote: > looks like the same thing as in PR 6084. Yes, but it's still in open state, noone replied at that ticket. Besides, dlg worte about active/active in 4.6 introducing the "defer" tag, as you can see here: http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090619100514 but

Re: 4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-07-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-07-13, Federico wrote: > Federico wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> after some disastrous test with OBSD 4.5, i tried to upgrade to -current >> via cvs, then to download the latest snapshot of 4.6 release from the ftp. >> >> My goal is to obtain a couple of firewall in active/active mode with >>

Re: 4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-07-13 Thread Federico
Federico wrote: > Hi all, > > after some disastrous test with OBSD 4.5, i tried to upgrade to -current > via cvs, then to download the latest snapshot of 4.6 release from the ftp. > > My goal is to obtain a couple of firewall in active/active mode with > load balancing enabled, but at now I'm un

4.6: load balancing and active/active

2009-07-08 Thread Federico
Hi all, after some disastrous test with OBSD 4.5, i tried to upgrade to -current via cvs, then to download the latest snapshot of 4.6 release from the ftp. My goal is to obtain a couple of firewall in active/active mode with load balancing enabled, but at now I'm unable to make it works. As I a