Hi David,
You are fortunate that your ISP supports aggregate connections. Here in
Australia, all ISP's don’t want to know about it. There attitudes are, if
you want to go faster, then get a faster connection and pay up to 10 times
the price.
However, I did download a 600MB files since replying to your email and my
PFSense did download this file across both connections at the same time. It
took me 26minutes to get this file down.
I could see that doth DSL Routers were being hammered quite hard
simultaneously, and when viewed in the Traffic graphs for WAN and OPT
interfaces, the bandwidth incoming and outgoing was exactly the same.
I have 2 1.5/256 DSL connections configured as Round Robin, but only on my
end as I mentioned earlier all ISP's here don’t support aggregating. My good
fortunate on downloading that large file was most likely something to do
with the server that I was getting it from, recognising both IP's.
When I saw it happening, I could not believe my eyes. The first 170MB
downloaded in 4 minutes. The remaining slowed off a bit. It takes a good
server to upload at that speed and a good connection to maintain it.
The www.firebrick.co.uk is quite hard to look at, at this time of the day,
being bright red! What are they thinking?
Kindest Regards,
Craig Roy
Horizon IT Consultants
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 31 March 2006 5:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Outbound load-balancing
Craig Roy wrote:
> 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 don’t know of any Router Hardware that will
> allow you to install more than 1GB of RAM. CISCO doesn’t 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 don’t 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, that’s from a users perspective.
>
> I hope that this has been helpful.
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Craig Roy
> Horizon IT Consultants
>
Craig
Thanks for the confirmation. The kit we use is called a Firebrick
(www.firebrick.co.uk) and is a joint venture between our ISP and an
electronics company.
We use it configured to send outbound traffic down multiple Internet
connections on a round-robin fashion, packet by packet. This allows us
to get a true aggregated link. Our ISP does the same in the inbound
direction. Automated fallback if connections(s) fail is also handled and
the connection is removed from the pool.
This allows us to get at true 2Mb/s downstream, 0.5Mb/s upstream
connection to the Internet by agregating two 1+0.25Mb/s ADSL lines. Will
be interesting to see what happens next week when BT upgrade their
infrastructure to support the full capability of ADSL (8+0.8Mb/s).
Best Regards
David
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