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Load Balancing using Nth method on mikrotik

Sun Mar 19, 2023 10:18 am

Hello My friends..!
so from your long experience, and with alot of method out there to apply Load balancing on mikrotik router, any one try to use Nth method..?
is it more effective than PCC and other..?
what is the down side and also the up side for it ..?
can anyone help..?
 
 
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Re: Load Balancing using Nth method on mikrotik

Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:58 pm

You almost certainly don't want to use it for TCP traffic is the main thing – it divides things by packets, not connections. If you have UDP traffic, which may not care about the src-address changing, it may be helpful to more evenly divide load, especially if it's all going to one place. For example, if the traffic is UDP-based tunnel to single end-point, Nth break up the packets between multiple WAN/uplinks. PCC, ECMP or connection-based things are more problematic in this UDP VPN case, since it won't divide load if you have a single port VPN tunnel at the other end.

But Nth (or an packet-based load balancing) can break some applications/protocols, that's not good for generic approach... why you don't see it as often used.
 
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Re: Load Balancing using Nth method on mikrotik

Sun Mar 19, 2023 8:34 pm

NTH will probably be fine if you encapsulate all your traffic in Wiregaurd - so can be practical depending on your situation.

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