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 you elaborate in the load balancing / Pfsense > context ?
Only one of the links (whichever one has decided that your monitor IP is available over it) will actually do any link failure detection. ie. in your case with 5 WANS, if monitoring is occurring for WAN5 and it's the same address as WANS1-4, if WAN1 goes down, you'll still send 1/5th of your traffic down that pipe (even though it won't work) as there will be nothing in place to determine it's availability. > "Whichever link came up last will set the route to your monitor IP through > it." > > So then, say WAN2 was the last WAN port to come up and the monitor addresses > were set to the same IP address, would it then only route traffic through > WAN2 ? It'll still round robin over all 5 links. It's just that only one of them will be monitored for availability. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
