…both cleint and server side, with support for MLPPP.
The current bonding scenarios are bad. Really bad - no load balancing, poblems with packet order etc.
If PPTP could be expanded to support MLPPP on both sides (client and server) this would solve a lot of bonding / aggregation problems for all those who can put a box to a central location.
- I could define a PPTP uplink with 5 connections
- Then route all 5 over ifferent ISP’s
THis would:
- Handle load balancing for traffic, which the current solutions do not nicely.
- Handle link down scenarios automatically, which the current soltuions do not nicely.
At the end there is a lot lost with the total lack of ML in PPTP.
Yes MLPPP would be very interesting. This is one of the important missing things inside router OS.
Bonding as been designed for LANs. Not for Internet.
The only and big problem is that there is no robust Opensource Linux code freely available to do this.
Most MLPPP implementations are proprietary. Some of them can be licenced, but it’s not free.
MLPPP server has been asked before in the forum, but Mikrotik never gave an answer to this.
In the meantime you could use FreeBSD MPD.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd/
A MT user has reported sucessfull MLPPP with it.
Yes, but as you pointed out there are mlppp implementations available under free licenses (bsd) to be ported. Tomato has a MLPPP Implementation that works on Routerboards, just I dont see a reason if possible to load a MetaRouter just to fix a feature that Mikrotik should fix in the first place.
It is a SERIOUS limitation. I have been reading into lots of posts the last days, and it seems there is NO Way to get anything near decent multi link load balancing even in the core scenarios (i.e. wireless networks). People with multi wireless parallel links are pointed to solutions that dont work (ECMP on multiple interfaces). Every routing solution that does traffic splitting from Miktorik does not handle parcket order AND is static (in the traffic distribution) - which makes it totally unfeasible in a world of unreliable bandwidth.
Not saying totally unworkable. I will hopefully soon run two PPTP tunnels with ECMP to my data center via two ISP’s, but it is NOT a solution that I think is nice. And in more complicated scenarios I could not even do that - if bandiwdth gets bad on one links for whatever reason, both degrade as the bad link still gets 50% of the traffic.
Seems very limited even in the Mikrotik core usage scenarios.