On Wednesday, 11 May 2016, ED Fochler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless your ISP is involved, you’re not going to do link aggregation or > BGP. I’m guessing you’re doing NAT on both of these WAN connections, and > not just routing. In this case I would recommend separating traffic by > user, or by port/protocol. > > I had a DSL and T1 arrangement a while ago and found that the best > experience was to let web users hit the DSL, and put ssh and latency > sensitive stuff on the T1. Allowing web connections to dynamically bounce > between the two uplink connections caused problems for web sites that > attempted to detect spoofing or maintain a persistent connection over > stateless http. > > Multiple WAN is good for traffic separation or failover. But don’t expect > magic aggregate throughput unless your ISP is intimately involved and > you’ve got native addresses. > > We have since switched to a single fiber link and it’s much less > troublesome. > > ED. > > > On 2016, May 10, at 2:38 AM, FrancisM <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > Im a fan of pfsense and been using it the old days 14years ago using the > > CLI script in freeBSD OS. Now Im using the latest release of this web GUI > > in my home lab network including my home network. I just want to know if > I > > can aggregate two WAN Connection to become one huge uplink? > > > > sample lets say i have two times 10Mb and will become 20Mb total > bandwidth. > > > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > > pfSense mailing list > > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold ------------------- Thank you all for your suggestions and comments. this will help me alot in my POC for this firewall regarding the WAN failover/aggregation. I think the best scenario that I can test is the 1. per user or filter it by route or subnet to send out the internet traffic to WAN1/WAN2 connection 2. per tcp/udp ports traffic. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
