HELP NEEDED! Most net apps not working with load balance

RouterOS General
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Hi there,

We got 2 (two) internet backbone down from different providers. As explained on docs, we setup load balancing on MT box (pc with DOM).

It works great on browsing. we can see different ip shown on myipaddress webpage.
But others seems to be suffers; most of our clients complain that :

  • their messenger apps (YM) always keep disconnected and reconnect after 5 minutes.
  • their download (using downloader) suddenly stop working after couple of minutes.

The above problem disappear if we disable one of the gateway interface.

The configuration used is : /ip route add dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 gateway=,

Any help will be appriciated.

TIA

Paul

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Use the modified load balance example in the wiki.

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Load_Balancing_Persistent

Once a client has connected and been routed through a WAN connection they then continue to use that gateway.

Regards

Andrew

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I just saw that wiki page.

That way will split the customer into two categories, categories one will be able to use first gateway and others will be able to use second gateway.

In that case, customer at first category will get better connection (leased line) and customer at second category will get another (VSAT).

Is there any way to make load balance without split the customer into categories ?

Paul

4

Connection based balancing is better, and would help other than just the way you described it.

I know I have seen examples of this, either in the wiki or in the docs. It works quite well. Do a search for Connection based balancing.

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hi, does anyone already solved this problems? may i know if yes? i had read a post about this problems, they solved by mangling the http packet especially for messenger packet but i forgot to bookmarked it.. thanks

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Just make a policy based route marking packets separated by services. Mark http, msn, HTTPS, mail and stuff like that(important stuff) and send the fast gateway, everything else send to the slower gateway. I maded this here, so basically all p2p goes on the slower gateway not comprometing the web surf!