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Network Load Balancing with the CradlePoint MBR1200
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Very nice article! 'Bout time us networking geeks get on the front page.
Keep 'em comin'
Brian
Keep 'em comin'
Brian
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I liked it too Brian.
I'd actually like to read something of yours also Brian, you should stop holding back.
I'd actually like to read something of yours also Brian, you should stop holding back.
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I will be dabbling in small business routers that are a couple years old here soon for CCNA/CCNP lab time and can review those if you feel that the community wants to read about them? I was under the impression that reviews were only relevant if they were of newer tech.
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Not really. It comes down to what is useful and/or interesting. I did an article on a Dell Perc 5/i RAID controller, which is ancient in computer years. I was also going to do an article on my Gateway 2000 NS-9000 server, which is even more ancient.
Good articles are good articles. I was actually hoping the thread asking about this would turn into an article; and it did. It is good to know these work as well as they advertise.
Good articles are good articles. I was actually hoping the thread asking about this would turn into an article; and it did. It is good to know these work as well as they advertise.
You kidding Cisco has some great stuff that we can only afford if its a few years old
I wan't to know how I can load balance with 2 differnt cable isp's and route different traffic over different modems
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You kidding Cisco has some great stuff that we can only afford if its a few years old
I want to know how I can load balance with 2 differnt cable isp's and route different traffic over different modems
I couldn't find any dual coaxil input modems so you probably have to buy two modems that go into a load-balancing capable router. It doesn't really matter that there's two ISP's as long as you know which IP to point the static route to on each WAN interface. As far as only sending certain data out over a certain interface you would have to set up some access lists outbound on your WAN interfaces allowing/disallowing the port numbers that the data you want to segregate run on. That just takes a router that can handle it, and a little big of networking gusto.
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You kidding Cisco has some great stuff that we can only afford if its a few years old
I wan't to know how I can load balance with 2 differnt cable isp's and route different traffic over different modems
From the link I added to ddwrt, you can get pretty close to doing that using iptables, but its not for the faint of heart:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Dual-WAN_for_simple_round-robin_load_equalization
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Is that a proprietary DD-WRT IOS or is that some other language?
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The stuff inside that link? It's linux shell commands, nothing proprietary there. Could call it bash scripting maybe, though I'm not sure if dd-wrt uses the bash shell or something else.
Could call it bash scripting maybe, though I'm not sure if dd-wrt uses the bash shell or something else.
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Got it. I just got through my first UNIX class and it looked sort of like the UNIX shell command language, but there seemed to be a lot I had not learned yet in there.
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Wow...
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Update
I got a 2nd Cbale modem installed and setup Load Balancing
Modem 1 TWC Wide Band 50/5
Modem 2 RCN Wide Band 60/6
Results
I mean this in the most friendly, nicest way possible.
I hate you for that upload speed.
stupid comcast.
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lol dude you're going to have a medium-sized business's data center in your house soon enough if you keep going at this rate!
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Nah, no CISCO gear (yet), and my Gig switch is only a "quasi" smart switch.
*points at Thideras*
"I blame him!"
Including the CPU en route? I'll be at 4,4,4,4,3,2,2,2+2,1+1,1(30) cores(give or take a few). And well over 20tb of storage.
Ok so yeah maybe I am close to business grade computing power for just myself.
I think I need counseling, is there an AA for geeks?
!BACK ON TOPIC!
Im assuming that you did this for a business?
Otherwise, how did you manage to get your ISP to provision for 2 different modems(not the 3/4G)? Did you use different ISPs?
Nah, no CISCO gear (yet), and my Gig switch is only a "quasi" smart switch.
*points at Thideras*
"I blame him!"
Including the CPU en route? I'll be at 4,4,4,4,3,2,2,2+2,1+1,1(30) cores(give or take a few). And well over 20tb of storage.
Ok so yeah maybe I am close to business grade computing power for just myself.
I think I need counseling, is there an AA for geeks?
!BACK ON TOPIC!
Im assuming that you did this for a business?
Otherwise, how did you manage to get your ISP to provision for 2 different modems(not the 3/4G)? Did you use different ISPs?
2 different isp's twc and rcn. Router does dynamic round robin load balancing based on max bandwidth and available. Example start and FTP an it uses 10mb per sec when you open a 2nd connection it will use the 2nd modem etc. Works great.
PS Its for my home office (mostly gaming wiht a little work)
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You're going to be very jealous of me. I just got my Cisco 861W router yesterday and there's a review in the works!
