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High availability / HA and Lagg setup / best practices for slightly different hardware
« on: December 04, 2023, 05:09:05 pm »
Hi,
I'm currently using pfSense, but planning to migrate to OPNsense, with a HA setup.
Recently on pfSense they removed to need to have the exact same OS network interface name (talking about ixl / igb / ...) => now it seems pfSense only needs to share the same configured interface name (wan, lan, ..) to be able to sync states
Is that kind of feature also planned on OPNsense, or maybe even already present? (sometimes the wiki is not up to date, so I prefer asking)
If not, I'm totally fine using LAGG as a workaround as my hardware is slightly different between the 2 nodes (plus it's more convenient in case of a failure, to be able to replace with temporary hardware)
In that case :
- What type of LAGG (Failover / LACP / ...) should be used as in my config there would be only 1 link in each group?
- Is it possible to use custom Lagg group names, to have something more explicit for example lagg_wan / lagg_lan, ... instead of lagg0 / lagg1 / ... ?
Thank you!
I'm currently using pfSense, but planning to migrate to OPNsense, with a HA setup.
Recently on pfSense they removed to need to have the exact same OS network interface name (talking about ixl / igb / ...) => now it seems pfSense only needs to share the same configured interface name (wan, lan, ..) to be able to sync states
Is that kind of feature also planned on OPNsense, or maybe even already present? (sometimes the wiki is not up to date, so I prefer asking)
If not, I'm totally fine using LAGG as a workaround as my hardware is slightly different between the 2 nodes (plus it's more convenient in case of a failure, to be able to replace with temporary hardware)
In that case :
- What type of LAGG (Failover / LACP / ...) should be used as in my config there would be only 1 link in each group?
- Is it possible to use custom Lagg group names, to have something more explicit for example lagg_wan / lagg_lan, ... instead of lagg0 / lagg1 / ... ?
Thank you!