Ok good luck. I see you’re from Stellenbosch. I’m from Jeffreys Bay. 
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The router isn’t ‘available’ in RSA, so you’ll have to import it or get a friend to bring it in… Gatkant van die wêreld… :-0
Ekkas
Hi
I am one of the others who have been struggling with load balancing for months, but without success. I did get the policy routing working on ver 2.8, but on 2.9 it was difficult, and I am not sure if it was working really well. (We had 2 ADSL Lines).
At the MUM in Prague someone suggested “Eddies Box” for bonding multiple adsl line. See http://www.freestuffjunction.co.uk/bondedcd.shtml.
I took the plunge a couple of weeks ago, and bingo, it works perfectly, and you get a Linux firewall thrown in (as well as a load of other stuff) and its cheap. My box is running two adsl lines, and has been up for 10 days so far with zero probs. Its easy to set up (if you read the documentation). I think the only thing to watch out for is that your adsl provider supports genuine MLPPP (RFC 1990) as per Eddies page. There are some in UK, but you have to look around.
The nice thing is, that to the MT box, the multiple adsl lines are just one big fat ethernet connection
I’m a great enthausiast of MT boxes, and dont like to mention another project on this forum, but the two boxes together have changed my life !!!
rgds
Jim Heck
Well, maybe it’s time for someone to post description of the problem together with configuration snippets instead of just complaining that it doesn’t work?
NAT+transparent proxy+ECMP works for large downloads for me 
Eugene
Eugene,
I didnt mean to say that it cannot be made to work, only that I could not get it to work on my box. I did have a session with MT support a couple of months ago (not on this forum) and sent them about 8 versions of rif files over a period of 2-3 months, but still no luck. I think that they and I just ran out of steam!! (energy).
I am not complaining. As I said, I am a great fan of MT. I think one of the advantages of the solution that I have hit on is that not only does it balance load TCP sessions, but also UDP. I dont think the MT load balancing over non MLPPP links does this. Am I correct in thinking this.
rgds
Jim Heck
You can post your configuration to enable us to help you.
Hi Eugene,
Many thanks for your offer, but unfirtunately I have now lost the configuration details, and now that I have the “BandingBox” solution have no need to get this functionality of MT working.
Again, many thanks for your offer of assistance, its really appreciated
rgds
Jim Heck
I will rebuild a configuration from scratch to show you an example. It will take me approximately one week to complete.
Eugenevdm
Works for me!! No problems at all
Edimax does not work for:
- http://www.absadirect.co.za secure banking site
it keeps on prompting for you pin
- MSN, ICQ (maybe)
Some banking sites do not like to have change source address changed ala ECMP.
if you do not require these sites you are ok, else you will have to keep on looking or source routing the problem areas
Can you post an example of your Policy routing configuration please.
Thks
Here is one example that does not work because downloads break:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/how-to-use-transparent-web-proxy-with-2-internet-connections/2257/1
Here is another example of unanswered questions regarding traffic originating locally:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/mark-routing-locally-generated-traffic-like-web-proxy/4458/1
Any news here ??
I would like to know if anyone has a working configuration for 2 (+ X) DSL PPPoE dialins and load-balancing.
Any comments / working configs from Mikrotik ??
seandsl
bump
bump what? nobody posted the configuration for Eugene. so why complain if you have nothing configured?
well then he needs to do that..or something this is from what i can see the BIGGEST feature needed but has been ignored by mikrotik.
thats why i did the bump..to bring it up again.
We’ve tried to get ecmp working since 2.8 and its like a dead feature in RouterOS , I’ll be amazed if anyone can make it work.
we followed the manual step by step but it was negative.
Normis,
I am on some 8 or so MLs/forums for various kind of products, I do know many computing communities. MT’s one, is the better one, friendly.
And I also note the fact, that users get help mostly from other users. But, I am known as a person not fearing voice my own opinion
So, I have to object to your post, I am sorry to do so. It does not help anybody and sounds kind of strange to me. Of course someone could eventually post some configs, but WHAT is the point?! You are product authors and you can see, that ppl get some trouble using your product. You claim you have some solution working, but you let ppl struggling for hours to get similar things to work.
Being your sales director, I would smash tech support for such kind of reply as yours. It does not help anyone, really. What is the point? So you can see ppl have some difficulcy, you can see, that ppl are starting to use different solution/boxes for it, which could distract someone from using your product in overall.
With few folks, we are discussing such topic on czech forum too. Well, it can be us, users, and probably it IS us, users, uncapable to get such things working. But then why to waste our time, and not produce some wiki-entry with some more examples when you claim you have it working? That would be much more constructive imo and would take some 10 - 15 minutes to produce?
Now sorry if you feel offended, please don’t. I am sometimes kind of stright with my opinion. But I am also a business owner, and I like ppl being focused on solving potential problems. We are one of MT-only boxes satisfied customers, but as you can see from posts here, some ppl struggle to get some things working, and you decide the best way to help them, as this issue is here for quite some time, and docs are not apparently satisfactory enough in this particular case …
Petr
The Wiki and the docs do contain examples on this issue. But many times the docs and wiki is not enough, in this case attending a training, coming to the MUM or even hiring a certified consultant for a specific task will be very helpful to understand certain issues. RouterOS is a huge system with a manual that already is more than 600 pages + wiki + forum + support emails and people still find it too little. So I recommend the above - personal experience with someone to explain in person.
OR
you could make load balencing more user friendly and sell ALOT more routers with route OS on them… I used my own work around by breaking up traffic but load balencing was what initally brought me to this platform.
Although i did not get what i wanted, i discovered how great RouteOS is and have begun to learn as much as i can about it. If someone would have clearly said that load balencing is difficult on routeOS and requires training or a 1 on 1 lessons, than i probablly would still be sticking with power hungry unix boxes and never discovred this great OS…
EDIT: to clearify, the reason i thought LBing was not a problem on routeOS was due to the example in the wiki/manual…
joe
Have you seen this: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Improved_Load_Balancing_over_Multiple_Gateways ?
Eugene