Hello, I've been digging around the new website and the devwiki wiki but
can't find much on load balancing.
I can only get 1.7Mbps/500kbps ADSL connection in my area, and want to
increase capacity. (leased line is not at option)
I'd like to get a 2nd 1.7Mbps/500kbps ADSL fitted. (IP options are
either single IP, No-NAT8 or no-NAT16)
One PfSense Firewall, Four NIC
NIC1 - WAN1 - ADSL 1
NIC2 - WAN2 - ADSL 2
NIC3 - LAN - NAT to small office of computers & exchange server
NIC 4 - DMZ for FTP Server (we can use a real ip for this)
On a single ADSL connection, when customers are uploading/downloading
files to our FTP server this dramatically slows http/smtp.
We don't want our FTP to be external, as we don't want to waiting for
uploading/downloading
I have two ideas in my head about how loading balancing might help
1.
All traffic is split across the two lines, and use traffic shaping to
control things a little. - but what happening if I have two customers
ftp'ing- will both of my lines be busy, and http/smtp will still be slow.
2.
Prioritise http/smtp to ADSL1 and Prioritise FTP. The more external ftp
sessions, then the busier/slower WAN2 gets without effecting http/smtp
on WAN1
If WAN2 is not being used (no ftp's) can be using that as overflow for
WAN1 (http/smtp)
As you can see, I'm getting confused. If anyone knows of any
documentation on this, any any ideas that might help me, then all will
be greatly appreciated.
Paul
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