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- | **Load Balance Weight: | + | \\ |
- | {{:pasted: | + | **Load Balance Weight: **This option is** **visible only when number of WANs > 1. It can be set between 0 and 256.\\ |
- | A very important concept to digest when setting up your device | + | {{: |
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- | Load Balance Weight: 0\\ | + | When configuring a router |
- | Does not actively route traffic but will be automatically enabled if all the other primary interfaces with weight greater than 1 fail for whatever reason. This is commonly used in the so called fail-over | + | |
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- | Load Balance Weight: 1\\ | + | |
- | Any value higher than 0 makes the interface actively routing packets. A weight of 1 doesn' | + | Let's assume we have 2 WANs, as follows: |
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- | Load Balance Weight: 5\\ | + | WAN0=" |
- | An interface set with e.g. weight 5 would essentially handle 5 new sessions before any other interface is to be used.\\ | + | |
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- | In a practical example let's say we have 3WANs:\\ | + | |
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- | WAN0 = weight 0\\ | + | |
- | WAN1 = weight 1\\ | + | |
- | WAN2 = weight 5\\ | + | |
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- | In this scenario WAN0 is to be used only if both WAN1 and WAN2 are both in failed state (can't route packets). WAN1 will handle the very 1st LAN client new session going through the router, where WAN2 is to handle the 2nd, | + | |
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- | A very important | + | At some point, WAN1 fails. As soon as this failure is noticed, WAN0 will activate and begin routing packets. Later, WAN1 recovers its connectivity. As soon as FreshTomato recognizes this, (within seconds or minutes), WAN0 will be put back into idle status while traffic is rerouted through the resuscitated WAN1. This process of recovering back to the originally active interface is known as // |
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