Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:40:17 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Istv=E1n_Szuk=E1cs?=" <leccine@gmail.com> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions on how to do Layer 2 load balacing with PF Message-ID: <b8592ed80807090240k234e0a20je94d04684bfc7580@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6E7521247AB3F04685C35F382AADE1B123932C7967@UXCHANGE7-2.UoA.auckland.ac.nz> References: <6E7521247AB3F04685C35F382AADE1B123932C7967@UXCHANGE7-2.UoA.auckland.ac.nz>
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hi! http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/sucon.pdf CARP Supports layer 2 load balancing (ARP based) cheers On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Mark Pagulayan <m.pagulayan@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I was just wondering if anyone of you have done layer 2 load balancing with > PF. > > We tried to load balance traffic between two bridge firewall through OSPF, > by putting equal weights on the router ports. But the problem we encountered > is that when packet exits FW1 ( a state is created) it returns to FW2, the > packet gets drop because the state created on FW1 has not yet synced on FW2. > > We did this experiment because the firewall starts to drop packets when > packet rates reach 30Kp/s hoping that we load balance it, we can distribute > traffic to the firewalls. And just for information where a using a Gig > interface (em) > > I wanted to ask if anyone of you have done load balancing on layer2 and > how they have done it. > > Your help guys would be mostly appreciated. > > Best Regards, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-pf@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pf > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-pf-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- the sun shines for all
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