Either both sides should bond at layer 2 (and thus there's only one IP address on either end, and thus one gateway for your pfSense box) or both should bond at layer 3 and use something like a routing protocol with ECMP to load-share across multiple IP addresses on each side.
I don't know the particulars for the latter on pfSense, but at first glance getting the L2/L3 mismatch sorted out seems a higher priority. dn On 11/22/10 1:39 PM, James Bensley wrote: > Hello List, > > I have gotten my self in a pickle trying to get my WAN links working > and I'm desperate now to get things up an running :) > > Scenario: My ISP offer line bonding on their ADSL lines. So I have two > lines with them to get things going, then I will add more over time. I > have two ADSL lines with them and they split the packets down the > lines 50/50 (if I had 3 lines it would be 33/33/33 and so on..) this > is done at layer 3, evenly dividing the packets over the active lines > for true up and down balancing (so if a line goes down the packet > distribution is recalculated over the remaining lines). How can I use > pfSense to merge the packets my end, and of course, balance them out > on the outbound journey? > > This is my set up: > http://i51.tinypic.com/2qaqyqs.png > > The 2 ZyXel P-660r ADSL modems are in bridged mode passing all ADSL > traffic out their Ethernet interface (my ISP has given me a /29 so the > first usable address is assigned to the first modem, the second > address to the second modem, the last usable address to the lagg0 > interface [say 1.0.0.6], obviously fake IPs used here!). Testing this, > it didn't work. Thinking about it now I'm home, that makes sense. The > lagg0 interface can only be assigned 1 gateway, not both, so it cant > balance across both lines. I guess it thought it would balance across > both lines thinking they both terminated at say 1.0.0.1 for example. > > What options exist in pfSense for this (if any?). > > Many thanks for your time, sorry for such a long post everyone :) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
