I’m about to create my first PCC Load balance and I don’t want to have problems regarding https sites, videos streaming and so on and since I’ve heard that using both-address or both-address and ports as classifiers may disturb some https sites and streaming, I’ve read few texts on PCC LoadBalance and as far as I have learned, using the src-address as the classifier allow each user to be assign to an specific Internet connection and by doing this it avoids many problems. what I wanna know is what is the logic behind it when assigning each user to one internet link? Let’s say I share three ADSL connections with 60 users, what is the criteria used to “put” each of these users on a specific link? Is there a risk of having 30 users “hooked” to one link, 20 to the other one and another 10 users to the third one? Does it balance the users equally between the three or more links or is it a random thing? I don’t wanna have 10 users hoked on one link and 50 to the other one, I want the number of users to be assingned to each internet link in a way as balanced as possible. Is it possible using the src-adddress method?
I am using PCC with source address method (about 100 users), it`s not the best method but it works, before that i used src and dst address but there were problems with https/internet banking… with src method more then a year everything is working normally, not 50:50 ratio but ok for me (I enabled graphing on my wan ports to get better viewing of traffic)…
I began using both addresses with firewall rules for the banking websites and everything seemed to be fine, but I wasn’t satisfied with the web browsing speed, then I gave “both-addresses and ports” a try and I’m amazed how things became faster and is near 50:50 ratio, things are much more balanced and faster and the best thing is, it’s been a few days and everythings seems fine no problem with banking sites at least the ones I put on the firewall rules! At least no one is complaning about anything. In the begining I was worried about having o add many addresses on the firewall, forcing it to use only one gateway, but now seeing how fast and balanced “both addresses and ports” is, I’m giving it a chance and will add as many rules as needed to keep everything working fine.