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- How to use HAProxy on Pfsense?
- Can Pfsense do load balancing?
- How many connections can HAProxy handle?
How to use HAProxy on Pfsense?
Go to HAProxy settings and check 'Enable HAProxy', then setup the maximum connections by referring to the memory –> Connection table. After this, click save. You are now done with the initial configuration and you should be able to access your services via the Reverse proxy!
Can Pfsense do load balancing?
The figure below demonstrates a scenario where we have two outgoing links to the Internet and each link has its own Internet connection. In this way, pfsense allows LAN machines to access the internet using the two outgoing links using load balance.
How many connections can HAProxy handle?
Here, HAProxy will accept up to 60,000 TCP connections concurrently. Having this limit prevents denial-of-service scenarios that could happen if HAProxy had to maintain more connections than the server's memory resources allowed.
