So its one or the other. Not both. That clears things up a lot ! thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] LB and pre-emption on CARP?
On 9/29/05, Frimmel, Ivan (ISS South Africa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > 1) What does the load balancing option in CARP page do? It's a poor way of load balancing based on the HASH AFAIK. >From the manpage: net.inet.carp.arpbalance Balance local traffic using ARP. > 2) If load balancing is enable on the CARP page do we still have to setup > the LB service? I'm pretty sure you will want to go with our load balancing system that uses slbd. > 3) In the LB service .. do I setup the virtual IP(124) into the LB pool ( > LAN GW to WAN ? ) Or do I use the 2 physical GW IPS of the routers (125 and > 126)? See http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=IncomingLoadBalancing and http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=OutgoingLoadBalancing for examples. > 4) If I use pre-emption, one is master another is slave, does it still LB? > It seems from the reading room .. only masters LB? i.e. to LB using CARP > pre-emption needs to be off so you can have 2 masters? Not really sure. I've never really used the arp balancing feature as I hear that it doesn't do a good job.. But this may have changed recently. Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
