Hi David, If you mean to aggregate or multilink connections by the term "Bonding", currently it is not possible and no hardware currently supports this that I am aware of. Many manufacturers currently support Load Balance and Failover, but not Aggregating. (Aggregating means to join connections to make one connection over multiple links)
Also if you do your research, you will probably find hardware cheaper than what your ISP will supply. But as a user of PFSense, I dont know of any Router Hardware that will allow you to install more than 1GB of RAM. CISCO doesnt supply this and if they did no-one could afford it. PFSense when load balance for Outgoing, the first users request will go out the Primary connection and the second user will go out the secondary and so on, but if the second user puts in a new request before the first user, the second users request will path to the Primary connection and vice versa. This will depend on how your rules are configured and Listed, as you may force users to take the OPT connection first and WAN second. I am currently using Dual WAN in an Outgoing Load Balance as in the above configuration, but I dont have FailOver DNS working, so when one connection is down all are down. I have supplied many routers to customers and I have also hardware routers but I find PFSense the best so far, thats from a users perspective. I hope that this has been helpful. Kindest Regards, Craig Roy Horizon IT Consultants -----Original Message----- From: David Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2006 8:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [pfSense-discussion] Outbound load-balancing I'd be grateful if somebody could confirm that it is not yet possible to load-balance outbound traffic across two WAN interfaces on a per-packet basis. If I am interpreting things correctly from the list/wiki/faq/fourm that outbound load-balancing is only possible on a per connection basis? We have multiple DSL connections from our ISP. They manage the bonding/load-balancing in the inbound direction but to achieve the same in the outbound direction our only solution currently is £500 of proprietary hardware. It works flawlessly but it would be nice to have an alternative solution. Best regards. David -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.384 / Virus Database: 268.3.2/294 - Release Date: 27/03/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.384 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/295 - Release Date: 28/03/2006
