Feature #12989
closed
Improve Load Balancing Gateway Groups to Include Bandwith Usage
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Description
Load balancing in pfSense is rather rudimentary and is completely random based on the weighting, with a default weight of 50/50. It is not aware if someone is already tapping out one connection that it should try to initiate states on the other connection instead.
It would be helpful to be able to program in upstream and downstream available bandwidth and weight connections based on current load at the time of the new state.
Updated by Jim Pingle over 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
This is not possible. pf has no way to know how much of a circuit is utilized to make any kind of decision of that nature. It doesn't know the circuit bandwidth nor the current amount of usage..
Users can setup weights on gateways for unequal balancing but all of that behavior must be set when the filter is loaded, it can't change afterward.