On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Mike Lever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can somebody please explain to me exactly how this works. I am having an > argument with my superior. He is insistent on setting the monitor IP > addresses in my load balancer pool to the same IP address. In his mind it > makes sense, as that way it will pick up which line is the fastest to the > same point and route accordingly.
Yeah, that won't work. > I read in the manuals that these IP addresses should be unique, and > therefore did as the manual said. What will happen if they are set to the > same address and why is that so ? You'll actually lose link failure detection. Whichever link came up last will set the route to your monitor IP through it. > Here is my thinking on how it works, please correct me where I am going > wrong. > > I have 5 WAN ports. The load balancer will constantly ping WAN1, WAN2,WAN3, > WAN4 & WAN5 simultaneously. Depending on which has the quickest response and > is not currently transmitting packets, it will utilise. Then why set the > unique IP addresses ? Usually the monitor IP is set to the next hop so you can detect link failure. Latency is not taken into account. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
