Best Load Balancing way for 7 WANS

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Hi friends, i am supporting a customer and paid an technician for setting up an Mikrotik CHR. I am not familiar with the Mikrotik Workflow so i need to trust what people are telling me.

Anyway, i was Working with DrayTek Routers before and it was working without any issues. Draytek is offering IP-Based or Session Based Loadbalancing.

Sessionbased Loadbalancing had its issues when using ssh,ssl or https. IP Based Loadbalancing worked perfect. We where using 5 Wans in the network without issues.

Now we want to upgrade to mikrotik with 7 Wans and our customers complained that they could not connect to servers trough proxy, ssl,https because the ip was changing all the time.

My admin is telling me that there is no option as the IP-Based from the Draytek.

I found out that Bandwith-based Loadbalancing is same as Ip-Based on Draytek, is it true that this will not work on Mkrotik?

Can anybody recommend a good solution…

Only thing i want is to have 7 Wans 3x200/25 Mbit + 4x 50/10Mbit loadbalanced and the customers did not get kicked out from there services. (Around 250 devices.)

Greetz
Artur

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On Mikrotik you are the one building your load-balancing, you can program it several ways. There’s no built-in already done methods, it’s up to the admin to program a suitable load-balancing for the scenario.

The IP-Based load balancing is nothing more than balancing connections depending on source and destinations addresses, and its perfectly doable, key being using “sticky” connections, i.e., you have to keep track of which connections enters the router from internet, in order to ensure answers to that incoming traffic are routed back to the outside via the same interface it entered through.