[pfSense Support] Monitor IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Mike Lever
Hi, Can somebody please explain to me exactly how this works. I am having an argument with my superior. He is insistent on setting the monitor IP addresses in my load balancer pool to the same IP address. In his mind it makes sense, as that way it will pick up which line is the fastest to the

Re: [pfSense Support] Monitor IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Bill Marquette
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Mike Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can somebody please explain to me exactly how this works. I am having an argument with my superior. He is insistent on setting the monitor IP addresses in my load balancer pool to the same IP address. In his mind it

RE: [pfSense Support] Monitor IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Mike Lever
Marquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 Dec 2008 10:46 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Monitor IP address On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Mike Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can somebody please explain to me exactly how this works. I am having an argument

Re: [pfSense Support] Monitor IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Mike Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 5 WAN ports. The load balancer will constantly ping WAN1, WAN2,WAN3, WAN4 WAN5 simultaneously. Depending on which has the quickest response and is not currently transmitting packets, it will utilise. What Bill said is

Re: [pfSense Support] Monitor IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Bill Marquette
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Mike Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the explanation Bill. Can you please elaborate where you mention: You'll actually lose link failure detection What exactly is link failure detection ? I understand the meaning of the words in isolation but can

Re: [pfSense Support] Monitor IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Bill Marquette
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Mike Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 5 WAN ports. The load balancer will constantly ping WAN1, WAN2,WAN3, WAN4 WAN5 simultaneously. Depending on which has the quickest response and

[pfSense Support] RE: [Pfsense Support] Monitor IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Mike Lever
] Monitor IP address On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Mike Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 5 WAN ports. The load balancer will constantly ping WAN1, WAN2,WAN3, WAN4 WAN5 simultaneously. Depending on which has the quickest

Re: [pfSense Support] RE: [Pfsense Support] Monitor IP address

2008-12-01 Thread Bill Marquette
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Mike Lever [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, thank you very much Bill. One point for clarification purposes... please define a flow ? Any given TCP connection (from connection setup, to teardown). Or UDP (say a VOIP call) stream of sufficient packet frequency to