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 >> is not currently transmitting packets, it will utilise. > > What Bill said is correct. One additional comment, the above isn't > true. Your load balancing is round robin, all connections in a pool > are used equally. If the monitor IP for a specific gateway stops
This is an important point to note. Monitoring is for the purposes of availability, not for latency detection. The WANs are load balanced from a connection perspective, not from a throughput or latency perspective. If you have a single flow eating up an entire connection, nothing will stop other flows from using that connection. The load balancing is on a flow by flow basis in a round robin fashion. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
