Hello guys good day. i have a small problem with my configuration i have i have 2 ISP witch has 500MBPS both and i have configured it in PCC Method
below is my configuration..my problem is that every time i run a speed test it only gives me 100MB..
You should check when you have to many connections running. Speed test will create a connection from your computer to 1 server. PCC - Per Connection Classifier, so if you have 1 connection it will go only from 1 ISP.
I have a similar setup, but I seem to have lost the feature of combined download bandwidth, however the upload remains.
So I have a WAN1 via 3rd party DSL modem and a WAN2 via 3rd party 4G router.
I used to be able to go on speedtest.net and whilst testing I was looking a the traffic graph for both WAN interfaces and I could see them maxed out on both download and upload.
Now it seems this is no longer applicable for download ONLY after a reboot/update?
The only thing I done since last time I tested was to add a mangle rule to force a specific LAN client (172.16.11.41) constantly on the same WAN (DSL) and some tinkering with the oVPN address and profile.
Any views, please?
Beter make this both-addresses:2/0 and both-addresses:2/1 also include the dst-port and src-port. Then both ISP being used is more likely and also check if you have enabled fasttracking also.
Ingdaka is also refering to plitting the connections.
thanks @msatter for the prompt response.
I have applied your change and it actually didn’t have the desired result, in fact the Upload was no longer benefiting from the merged bandwidth either.
However I reverted the change back to both-addresses-and-ports:2/0 and both-addresses-and-ports:2/1 and now the download is working as expected, where it is merging bandwidth from both WANs.
Regarding Fasttracking, I’m not sure about it, not used it before, can it be implemented at this stage?
Hi sir I just have a handful of connections running I just used /28 for my route to OSPF in 2 ports for DHCP port ROUTE and DHCP and group in Interface LIST which is the LAN on the configuration
@clinttt, let’s start from the basics - without any load balancing configuration, and with the action=fasttrack-connection rule disabled in /ip firewall filter, does your router manage the 500 Mbit/s over the primary WAN? You haven’t shown what router model you have, and 500 Mbit/s throughput is far beyond the capabilities of many SOHO models, let alone the full 1 Gbit/s.
@msatter, did you indeed mean to enable fasttracking? Since any kind of load distribution except the ECMP one depends on mangle, you can not permit fasttracking for all the traffic, at best it can be permitted for traffic going through one of the WANs.
hi sir @sindy thanx for the response. Well with regards to direct speed of the ISP we’ve tried several Test like Direct speed test from Modem to PC and speed test from MT to PC. and yes we have reach the said speed test with 500mbps per modem. by the way we are using RB5009 as our CORE Router. So far we are not encountering problems yet since we just have a handful of clients as of this moment. we are just preparing just for the worst. and also I don’t have fasttrack in my Filter Rules
For a 5009, two 500 Mbit/s uplinks should not be an issue even with mangling. As you don’t use fasttracking, and as hardware-offloaded routing cannot interfere with mangle because it is not supported on RB5009, the speed limitation cannot be caused by some packets to bypass mangling and end up on the wrong WAN.
Are the mangle rules you’ve shown the only ones you use? I can see nothing wrong about them alone, nor about the routes, everything is as it should be for a 1:1 load distribution.
While running the speedtests, could you watch the actual bandwidth occupation on the WANs (/interface/monitor-traffic etherX,etherY)?
Well, the order of the mangle rules could be optimized a little bit, but that still doesn’t explain the throughput limitation. Anything configured in queues?
This is really confusing now…
…so I noticed something interesting… if I test speed via Ookla (speedtest.net) I seem to be utilising both WANs on upload and download, but I also noticed whilst one of the LAN clients was downloading a big update file this was coming down only on WAN1, so no combined bandwidth. See the attached graphs for the client updating and the speedtest…
Maybe your trying to combine the speed…because load balancing it just trying to split the traffic. my case is different to yours because I have set the firewall but I cant get the speed test correctly.
can you post your script so that we can exchange idea?
If the modem itself can deal with the 500 Mbit/s, there is no point in moving the PPPoE client processing from the modem to the 5009, unless the modem has a public IP address on it and you want to use that address directly on the 5009. Otherwise, running the PPPoE client(s) on the 5009 would just add more load to the CPU and bring no benefits.
Sorry, from your description of the tests “without load distribution” it wasnt’ completely clear to me what exactly you did. So let’s put it another way, what is the result of the speedtest if you test the same way like you do with load distribution, but with all the mangle rules in chain prerouting disabled? This will tell us whether the mangle rules or something else is the reason of the low speed, as the hardware topology will be the same for both scenarios (with and without load distribution).
I didn’t know which router was used having low speeds, is often due to not enabling fasttracking on slower routers. Enabling it on a pure routing config, indeed it- breaks the traffic flow. That why I first always connection-mark and then based on that mark, set the routing-mark. This to be able to also re-mark the correct routing-mark for later traffic coming back from the clients.
General warning, not all dst-addresses support multiple connections. This forum, for example does not support that. You can test that when you write a posting and press preview and nothing happen or with a delay.
That is the correct working. You have one target and the client uses one connection.
When the client and the server support concurrent connections, then the downloaded file is split in parts and downloaded parallel. Look for IDM which does that for you,
