Hi, Having successfully used pfsense as a clustered firewall with CARP for external and internal shared IPs, I am trying its load balancing feature to manage a pool of web servers.
So, created a pool with 2 httpd's, and it works. However, when I killed httpd on one box, I got a few errors when connecting from outside world for about five seconds, and then pfsense failed over to the other box. Thus I would like to ask 1/ how quickly should pfsense discover one of the units in the pool is dead? 2/ why didn't pfsense pick up the dead unit when I connected and know to redirect, or at least only fail the once? 3/ can I tune the timers, can I add weights to favour one server over another, can I make the load balancer interrogate the web servers to determine their loading and not just that there's a tcp listener? I am sure I am asking too much of pfsense loadbal, but I just need to get an idea of whether it will be useful initially under I need to go get a fully-featured complex load bal. thanks very much Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
