RE: [pfSense Support] Load balancer
Where can I find details about the pfsense balancer? Things like how a request is handled and config options maybe even a howto? -Original Message- From: Gary Buckmaster [mailto:g...@centipedenetworks.com] Sent: 06 February 2009 19:57 To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Load balancer Hiren Joshi wrote: Hello all, I'm using pfsense to firewall at the moment but pass all the http traffic to an internal load balancer (nginx). My question is, would it be possible to replace nginx with pfsense and how would the two compare in terms of performance? Many thanks, Josh. We use pfSense to load balance 65 million requests daily to a cluster of HTTP servers on fairly minimal hardware. Performance for us has been excellent. I can't speak to nginx, never heard of it and I've not had reason to look past pfSense for our needs. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Load balancer
A good start is here: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php?title=Category:Load_balancing Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 - Hiren Joshi j...@moonfruit.com wrote: Where can I find details about the pfsense balancer? Things like how a request is handled and config options maybe even a howto? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
RE: [pfSense Support] Load balancer
Thanks for the quick reply... I just couldn't find it on the wiki! -Original Message- From: Tim Nelson [mailto:tnel...@rockbochs.com] Sent: 07 February 2009 15:32 To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Load balancer A good start is here: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php?title=Category:Load_balancing Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 - Hiren Joshi j...@moonfruit.com wrote: Where can I find details about the pfsense balancer? Things like how a request is handled and config options maybe even a howto? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Load balancer
I have to admit it took me a bit to find it as well. For whatever reason, when looking by category, it assumes you want to edit the category. I simply had to change the url from http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php?title=Category:Load_balancingaction=edit to http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php?title=Category:Load_balancing . Odd. Maybe something could be done to make the wiki more user friendly? Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 - Hiren Joshi j...@moonfruit.com wrote: Thanks for the quick reply... I just couldn't find it on the wiki! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
[pfSense Support] captive portal without MAC filtering
The captive portal has the following option: MAC filtering - Disable MAC filtering If this option is set, no attempts will be made to ensure that the MAC address of clients stays the same while they're logged in. This is required when the MAC address of the client cannot be determined (usually because there are routers between pfSense and the clients). If this is enabled, RADIUS MAC authentication cannot be used. This sounds useful. It could fix the difficulty we have of requiring LAN users, who want to add wifi in their home, that they need to use wireless access points, not wireless routers (or wireless routers configured as purely wireless access points, for those that support this), so that they don't ruin our charging model. People find the technical differences hard to understand. So, how does pfSense track people with this option enabled? How does it work? -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegoldenear.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] captive portal without MAC filtering
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Pete Boyd petes-li...@thegoldenear.org wrote: The captive portal has the following option: MAC filtering - Disable MAC filtering If this option is set, no attempts will be made to ensure that the MAC address of clients stays the same while they're logged in. This is required when the MAC address of the client cannot be determined (usually because there are routers between pfSense and the clients). If this is enabled, RADIUS MAC authentication cannot be used. This sounds useful. It could fix the difficulty we have of requiring LAN users, who want to add wifi in their home, that they need to use wireless access points, not wireless routers (or wireless routers configured as purely wireless access points, for those that support this), so that they don't ruin our charging model. People find the technical differences hard to understand. It's simple to bridge wireless on almost every wireless router, just plug in one of the LAN ports rather than the WAN/Internet port. Double NAT is ugly and potentially problematic, so I would stay away from it if at all possible. Disabling MAC filtering will work around it if you really must do it that way. So, how does pfSense track people with this option enabled? How does it work? As it says in what you quoted above, just by IP rather than by IP and MAC. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
