load balancing with single gateway

neeraj_k · Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:50 am

Hi,
I'd got multiple pppoe accounts from the same service provider. So i get the same gateway. How to do load balancing in this kind of scenario

clients <>eth0.....................eth1<>pppoe1
pppoe2
pppoe3
all pppoe get the same gateway

scenario 2
the only difference is tht i get one ip on the client.
client one Ip only <>eth0.....................eth1<>pppoe1
pppoe2
pppoe3
thnx

Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:51 am

this was discussed before. you would need some `per interface` routing, but this is not supported.

cmit · Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:53 pm

Which makes me ask again if this could be introduced in 3.0 (for point-to-point interfaces only, as it makes not much sense on other interface types)?

Best regards,
Christian Meis

Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:09 pm

you could add two routers - one for each pppoe connection. the current one will loadbalance to the two

            __________ ISP 1
        R2 /
R1-------
        R3 \__________ ISP 2

cmit · Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:41 pm

Aarg - two more possible points of failure (not to talk about expenses).

Having several (separate) uplinks to the same provider (with the same gateway) mostly is a sign of using several ADSL or the like as a cheap "uplink". So cost WILL be a matter here.

And - come on - this one is really easy to implement, no? PLEASE!

Best regards,
Christian Meis

changeip · Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:09 pm

Yes, please please please ...

neeraj_k · Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:58 pm

ok routers installed. as per picture above in normis' post. does these router i:e r1 and r2 needs to be connected on different ethernet interface or multiples ips can be added on the same ethernet and do the load balancing.
regards

changeip · Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:08 pm

You can use the same interface if you choose. Preferred source might come into play. As long as you have unique gateway IPs is what matters.

neeraj_k · Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:01 pm

all done load balancing working but as soon as i start hotspot browsing stops rest ports working fine. It gives error Mikrotik proxy error 504

load balancing with single gateway

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