Per-Packet Load Balancing with OSPF

RouterOS General
1

There is a siple way to switch from ECMP to per-Packet Load Balancing.

The reason is simple: I wand to balance IPSec encrypted traffic, then with ECMP all flow will use only one link.

I don’t belive that mikrotik is not capable, CISCO is cabable to change this behaviours:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094820.shtml

The alternative is to use Bonding with eoip, but this will increase dramatically the compecity (I will need additional routes…).

regards
Stefano

2

there is really no solutions to my question? :frowning:

can some mkrotik guru confirm this?

many thanks
regards
Stefano

3

is this what you are after? please clarify your needs

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/OSPF_to_simulate_full_duplex_links_with_redundancy

4

I have 3 sites connected with multiple Full-duplex/WL connections and I would like to agragate the bandwith of all this connections.
On the border of the 3 sites I have some 3party VPN that encrypt the traffic.

This means that with ECMP all traffic use the same route.

Only with round-robin/per-packet load balanging I can use all the abailable bandwith.

how can I tell the mikrotik to don’t use ECMP and to use round-robin load-balancing?

there is other ways?

regards
Stefano

5

Unfortunately there is no option similar to cisco, but you can try to use mangle nth to mark packets equally and then add manually routes with routing marks.