Bug #6025
Updated by Jim Pingle about 8 years ago
Strange one here:
Testing Load Balancing it seems there is an issue with weights. Given that there are two WANs each with one gateway, if one gateway has a weight of 1, and another gateway has a weight higher than 1 (2, 3, etc), only one of the gateways is used.
Example cases:
WAN=1, WAN2=1: OK
<pre>pass in quick on vmx1 route-to { (vmx3 203.0.113.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1) } round-robin inet from 10.3.0.0/24 to any flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: Default allow LAN to any rule"</pre>
WAN1=1, WAN2=2: Only uses one gateway (203.0.113.1):
<pre>pass in quick on vmx1 route-to { (vmx3 203.0.113.1), (vmx3 203.0.113.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1) } round-robin inet from 10.3.0.0/24 to any flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: Default allow LAN to any rule"</pre>
WAN1=2, WAN2=1: Only uses one gateway (203.0.113.1):
<pre>pass in quick on vmx1 route-to { (vmx3 203.0.113.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1) } round-robin inet from 10.3.0.0/24 to any flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: Default allow LAN to any rule"</pre>
If both weights are > 1, 2, then it is OK:
WAN1=2, WAN2=2: OK
<pre>pass in quick on vmx1 route-to { (vmx3 203.0.113.1), (vmx3 203.0.113.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1) } round-robin inet from 10.3.0.0/24 to any flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: Default allow LAN to any rule"</pre>
WAN1=3, WAN2=2: OK
<pre>pass in quick on vmx1 route-to { (vmx3 203.0.113.1), (vmx3 203.0.113.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1), (vmx0 198.51.100.1) } round-robin inet from 10.3.0.0/24 to any flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: Default allow LAN to any rule"</pre>
Also of note, when the weights differ, even though the gateways have a specific order with repetition in the rule, pf seems to still flip back and forth, though the general ratio of the weights is respected. For example with WAN1=3, WAN2=2:
<pre>
$ for i in {1..10}; do curl http://iptest.example.com/ip.php; done
Your IP Address is: 198.51.100.3
Your IP Address is: 203.0.113.3
Your IP Address is: 198.51.100.3
Your IP Address is: 198.51.100.3
Your IP Address is: 203.0.113.3
Your IP Address is: 198.51.100.3
Your IP Address is: 203.0.113.3
Your IP Address is: 198.51.100.3
Your IP Address is: 198.51.100.3
Your IP Address is: 203.0.113.3
</pre>
If it turns out to be a deeper issue in pf, the easy fix would be to automatically multiply all weights by 2x if one is 1 and the other is >1.