Hi, i am small isp, currently i am serving 1200 pppoe session with average load of 700 Mbps on CCR 1036, but the cpu goes above 50%, so i want to add one more ccr 1036 into the network for cluster. Kindly suggest how to add 2 PPPOE Mikrotik CCR 1036 in a network for load balancing.
Thanks
Is the CCR1036 being used for more duties? (i.e. firewall, QoS?)
From experience, a dedicated PPPoE CCR1036 with double that users figure doing simple queues would hover around 7-12% CPU maximum.
Load balancing PPPoE servers isn’t a simple task, I’d first try to straighten out why such high load on your server.
The ccr is being used for PPPOE Sessions, Firwall running, Simple and cdn queues, when the traffic reaches to 1300 mbps and online users goes above 1400 at peak hours the cpu goes around 50 to 60 %, thats why i want to implement one more Nas server to divide the load before its getting worse.
Thanks
hello mikrotik ?
This is a user-supported forum, Mikrotik staff do participate but what you’re asking for isn’t related with support per se…
Do deploy another PPPoE server and bring the connections to it, dividing the load; without knowing specific details of your network topology and actual implementation/configuration it’s not possible to provide more specific detail.
Hi pukkita, my ccr 1036 is overloading , cpu goes above 50 to 60 percent. I want to add one more nas (ccr 1036) to balance the load. How can i achieve this ? i want to balance the load between two Mikrotik Nas .
Look in profile to know what is using cpu.
Have you seen Janis’ presentation at eu mum 2017? Analyzes at least 2 common errors in configurations like yours: using masquerade or poor configuration of ospf areas
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The presentation dtoffo references: https://youtu.be/3LmQYIQ5RoA
I stand by my recommendation, fix issues first. Introducing another router will increase complexity and make troublehooting harder for you.
Only exception would be deploying a firewall-specific duty router between you BGP PE and the PPPoE AC, moving all perimeter firewalling to it.
But again, it may be quicker to fix the CCR1036 setup.