Hi Bill, Yes I have been using a Download manager leechget www.leechget.net , and I have been using this one for a few years now. But it has never made that much difference before.
I downloaded another file last night 3.3Gig and it however did not come in via both connections and I used the same DL manager and it had the same amount of connections. I really can't explain why the difference. But when it works using both connections, all I can say is its pretty cool to watch it come in that fast. I have now been using PFSense in a Load Balance capacity now for about a month and have downloaded many files using Leechget. However, you may be able to assist me with a Failover DNS. I synced as how Scott mentioned and the failover DNS worked sort of, but only after refreshing the page request a couple of times. Any thoughts on what I need to do to have this work correctly? I am experimenting with a DNS server in my network as well but I am not sure if it should be on the outside of PFSense or can remain behind the firewall. Any ideas? Kindest Regards, Craig Roy Horizon IT Consultants -----Original Message----- From: Bill Marquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 31 March 2006 8:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Outbound load-balancing On 3/30/06, Craig Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Any chance you're using a download manager? A number of them will open up multiple connections to the destination server and request individual "chunks" of a file. FWIW, we round robin network flows, so this would have HAD to use multiple tcp connections to work the way you are describing. --Bill -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.384 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 30/03/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.384 / Virus Database: 268.3.3/298 - Release Date: 30/03/2006
