Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:14:02 +1200 From: Mark Pagulayan <m.pagulayan@auckland.ac.nz> To: "freebsd-pf@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pf@freebsd.org> Subject: Suggestions on how to do Layer 2 load balacing with PF Message-ID: <6E7521247AB3F04685C35F382AADE1B123932C7967@UXCHANGE7-2.UoA.auckland.ac.nz>
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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 encountere= d is that when packet exits FW1 ( a state is created) it returns to FW2, th= e packet gets drop because the state created on FW1 has not yet synced on F= W2. We did this experiment because the firewall starts to drop packets when pac= ket rates reach 30Kp/s hoping that we load balance it, we can distribute tr= affic to the firewalls. And just for information where a using a Gig interf= ace (em) I wanted to ask if anyone of you have done load balancing on layer2 and ho= w they have done it. Your help guys would be mostly appreciated. Best Regards, Mark
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