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8 wan connection load balance

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:01 pm
by bouncer69
Hi,

I'm new in routeros. i need some help to configure my routeros. I have 8 wan connection with equal upload and download. I want to make a good load balance. My local network ip blocks are 192.168.11.0/24 and 192.168.12.0/24. So basically i need:

1. load balance
2. standard upload and download limit for each clients ( 2 Mb download and 256k upload)
3. traffic seperating for http, p2p, skype etc

thats all, any help will be appriciate

Re: 8 wan connection load balance

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:43 am
by normis
you can use Mangle to mark certain types of traffic with routing marks, and send each type through a different gateway (with routes based on those routing marks). ECMP can break things, for example programs that make multiple connections could have problems if they receive answers through different gateways.

Re: 8 wan connection load balance

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:50 pm
by nickryder59
Hi,

I'm new in routeros. i need some help to configure my routeros. I have 8 wan connection with equal upload and download. I want to make a good load balance. My local network ip blocks are 192.168.11.0/24 and 192.168.12.0/24. So basically i need:

1. load balance
2. standard upload and download limit for each clients ( 2 Mb download and 256k upload)
3. traffic seperating for http, p2p, skype etc

thats all, any help will be appriciate
Use something like this;

add action=mark-routing chain=prerouting comment="" disabled=no \
new-routing-mark=HTTP passthrough=no protocol=tcp src-address=\
192.168.11.0/24 src-port=80

This will mark traffic from that subnet as HTTP when it uses port 80

Then in the route just select HTTP from the Routing Mark drop down box and specify which gateway to use.

I hope this helps, it works for me as I use it to seperate voice and data.