Is Policy Base routing available in V2.9B8?
If not, will it be available?
I would prefer to use this over load balancing. Load balancing seems to have a slight problem with programs like MSN, the connection intermittently drops. I assume this happems when the application switches destination IP’s and Mikrotik picks the other connection. Therefore I would prefer to stagger the clients between the two outgoing interfaces based on their source IP.
Terry
Ah I think this is the question I am asking in ‘Bonded ADSL’, curently above.
NO, I don’t think it is the same at all.
We currently have load balancing working. With the clients traffice being equally divided amoung the uplinks.
I want to route individual customers out a single interface with two routing tables as is explained in Policy Routing in V2.8
ie:
IP’s 10.3.0.1 10.3.0.3 10.3.0.5 … all odd Ip’s route to main table with a gateway on Wan1 interface
IP’s 10.3.0.2 10.3.0.4 10.3.0.6 … all even IP’s rout to second table with a gateway on Wan2 interface
This scenario makes sure that the customers Nated address is allways the same, and allways routs through one gateway.
Terry
True, I only want it to go via 1 IP when it matters, say MSN by the sound of it, but when it does not matter use both IPs freely.
I’ve been intending to ask about this for a bit as the examples don’t seem to take such things into account. I am sure it can be done as u can buy boxes that can do this.
An example of where this is useful is segmented downloading with getright where you can get near the speed of both links for your download. However for applications that require you always to have the same IP (clara news) this does not work.
However I don’t want to just shove all usenet trafic down 1 link as this wastes the 2 link another user could be using for usenet.
What is the correct name for this?