On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM, James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> wrote:
>can the pfSense box handle incoming balancing this > way as well as out going? Incoming load balancing in pfsense is different from outgoing load balancing. It allows you to have more than one server on your internal networks responding to incoming connections on a single interface. For example, if your WAN is taking http requests on port 80 from the internet, inbound load balancing allows you to forward those requests to multiple web servers on your LAN, OPT1, etc. Outbound load balancing of course can be configured to route packets from your internal networks out via multiple WANs. The natural result of this is that return packets will come back via the same WAN interface they went out on. Some protocols, including http and bittorrent are very efficient at making use of all your available bandwidth due to generating multiple parallel sessions, which pfsense will balance across the available gateways. db --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
