In case both WANs are available the connections will be distributed to the WANs roundrobin. This waya you can hit the full bandwidth of both WANs even with a single client as long as you use multiple connections (like with downloadmanagers for example or if you open a HTTP Webpage with images from different sites). In case one of the WANs fails you'll end up with "(total bandwidth of all WANs) - (WANs that are down)" (You can have as much WANs in a pool like your hardware can handle). The monitor IPs of the WANs are polled every 5 seconds, so downtime of a WAN is detected rather quick.
Holger -----Original Message----- From: Nelu Sofrone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [pfSense-discussion] load balancing - fail over Hi all! I have a question about load balancing - fail over. I have 2 Internet connections and I made some tests about fail over. I set the firewall rules with gateway on pooling interface and fail over worked ok. I don't understood how work load balancing. My scenario is: 2 Internet connection - work normally 1 pool for Internet connections The firewall's rules have the gateway on pool interface. In this case, is my bandwidth of internet the sun of bandwidth of internets connection or is only one internet connection use and second internet connection is use only in case of fail the first internet connection? Thank you. ____________________________________________________ Nelu SOFRONE System Engineer Aker Braila SA tel: +40 239 60 70 55 ____________________________________________________ ____________ Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit
