Suggestions on how to do Layer 2 load balacing with PF

[István Szukács]

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 at 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
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