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How to properly set up load balancing on a Draytek 2950

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19 May 2011 16:01 #67848 by gss03
Hi there,

I have a client with two internet connections coming into their building
1 * 5M EFM service (synchronous)
1* 10M Telewest Cable service (asynchronous)

How do I weight web traffic to go out via the telewest service, keeping the EFM service free for other network services?

I thought I had it working, but it doesn't appear to be so as the router isn't load balancing over the two services :-(

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20 May 2011 17:15 #67864 by nobody
I dont use the auto-load-balacing feature. Sometimes, a webserver/application on a server might refuse a request from a client when packets arrive from 2 different IP Addresses.

But what works nice is to make rules which distribute the traffic depening on the IP or protocol used.
I still use QoS to reserve neccessary bandwidth to important services.

What I do:
use one synchronous connection mainly for VPN, DNS, ssh, Server communication
use the other connection for surfing

In the VPN profiles, set the profiles to only WAN1
for the Servers define IP ranges for start and end in the Load-balance-policy table, and if it makes sense the destination port and send that over WAN1
for known services define rules with any IP but destination ports for sending these over WAN1
for web define a rule with dest port 80 and 443 and force that over WAN2
The last rule in the table sends everything else over WAN2

I dont know, if this matches your application, but it works good enough for me.

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