since i’ve read EVERY post about ECMP in reguards to load balancing, i was thinking of another method and would like some input / ideas. since ECMP is far from perfect thus far.
I have a biz SDSL line and a biz cable (pppoe for dsl, dhcp static for the cable). I have fail over setup per the manual and it works great!
now what if i set all traffic on say,< port 1000 (or whatever) goes over gateway 1 (dsl) and all traffic over port 1000 goes to gw2 (cable).
the idea is to keep all the high port p2p stuff on one line and the web / https / mail / ftp stuf on another line?
Am i missing something that will hinder this since i cant seem to get it to function via NAT
I have 3 dsl and a don’t know how to bonded it
I have about 250 hosts in my network and some time is the situation when one dsl is full used when anather is completely not used.
Whta you advice me.
bonded is not what you want unless your ISP supports it or is willing to work with you since to truly bond, you need control of equpment on both sides.
I forget describt my configuration.
250 host connection to wifi over pppoe (10 mPCI carts on 4 Mikrotik routerboard series 500)
3 dsl modems with ethernet cable and 8 address networks for each modems. (15 public address do used)
fro what I understand there is no reliable way to run load balencing via ecmp. I’ve read over 50 threads here about it and they all point to it working but there are tons of problems like aim cutting out and secure sites failing due to non session persistentance.
I would expect load balancing using “simple” technique as one packet goes this way, other one that way, as simply being a stopper for services like ICQ etc., where some connection persistency is required. However, I was surprised, that MT docs state, that ECMP creates pairs of source/destination IPs, so it should automatically use one gw for the whole communication.
If that is actually true, I don’t know. If you are having problems with such apps disconnecting, then ECMP does not work that way probably.
As for me - our network has two gws too, and I want to go following way - some networks go via gw1, other ones via gw2, packets marked in Mangle, routing-mark used.
Well, it may be actually wrong, but first I’ll try get traffic separated upon routing marks. The, on the third line, there is still default gw for main routing table, in the case where some other traffic would be forgotten, and if it fails, everything goes via y.y.y.y (fourth line). And if both gws are out, well, then there is someone to shoot
yes, from what i’ve tested ecmp does not “maintain persistance” (haha) as would be needed for some types of ssl or msn ect…
I did read a post a while back where some one was “load balencing” by simply setting a range of ips to use one GW and the other range/half use a different GW. fail over being all devices are routed to one or the other. maybe this could work for you? as stated above i still want to test traffic “load balenced” via port exclusion…0-2000 ports = GW1 2001-65000 = gw2 i need to test it but i see no reason it would not work..except for lthngs like a 80-> 8080 re direct
