LoadBalancing !!!!

RouterOS General
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Hi
Please help that I can use any LoadBalancing method!!! For merging two bandwidth

WAN1 VSAT 10MB
WAN2 DSL 30MB

MIX 10MB+30MB =40MB ----> Use LAN

Thanks

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You cannot simply bond 2 lines to get the sum of the total unless your ISP is in on the deal, however, you can simulate it by using Nth but that cause some other issues with especially banking sites and so on. The latest and greatest LB method is PCC http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/PCC but you wouldn’t get full 40MB depending on the way you use it.
For my level of skill, I could get it to use max bandwidth (when using a download manager with multi-connections per file) but then banking sites (and some others) log you out constantly, or get it stable banking but then get max speed of only one WAN line per file downloaded. Just read a bit back in the forums, there are quite a few discussions relating to the different methods for LB, nl. : ECMP(yuk), Nth(so-so), PCC(bells and whistles).
But the answer I hate is: Depends on what you want to do.
Ekkas

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ekkas,
I assume when you say ‘banking sites’ that you mean sites using HTTPS?
As far as I know, https requires you to come from the same source the whole time. So if you load balance between two or more connections, it wont work and you will be logged out.
I’ve noticed similar behavior on some (but not all) phpBB forums and some cpanel stuff that runs on port 2095 (i think).
We simply force https over one wan to solve the issue.

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https is just secure http - it’s stateless protocol. so only the webserver itself checks client’s IP. some sites don’t like when IP is changed

and yes - in general, https’ traffic is small enough to direct it to the dedicated uplink

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I agree with Chupaka, the same happen with even some port 80 http sites, for example www.wug.za.net. However that site is on a DDNS server, so even you do like I do and redirect https (and some other ports) via 1 WAN and have a ‘problem site’ address list also redirecting through 1 WAN, this site (and I’m sure others) will still cause problems when their IP change.

Ekkas