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Date:      Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:26:37 -0700
From:      Jason DiCioccio <jd@ods.org>
To:        Mark Pagulayan <m.pagulayan@auckland.ac.nz>
Cc:        "freebsd-pf@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pf@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Suggestions on how to do Layer 2 load balacing with PF
Message-ID:  <4874925D.4020306@ods.org>
In-Reply-To: <6E7521247AB3F04685C35F382AADE1B123932C7967@UXCHANGE7-2.UoA.auckland.ac.nz>
References:  <6E7521247AB3F04685C35F382AADE1B123932C7967@UXCHANGE7-2.UoA.auckland.ac.nz>

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Hey Mark,

Mark Pagulayan 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.
>   

The first thing that comes to my mind is changing the behavior on the 
router.  Many routers allow you to choose how they forward in a 
situation with equal-cost paths.  See below for the Juniper version of this.

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos70/swconfig70-policy/html/policy-actions-config11.html

Regards,
-JD-




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