Suggestions on how to do Layer 2 load balacing with PF

[Jason DiCioccio]

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-