Advance Routing - Advice reqd

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Moederloos

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I have an ADSL router, which I have set up as:

1) Router makes connection to internet directly, using my IS ADSL account
2) WinXP makes a connection to my SAIX account, using bridged mode.
3) Internet seems to default over 2) - not sure if I can change this, but it suits me as is
4) I have set up persistant routes to my IS server on my PC

Now, it seems that (default) internet traffic goes over SAIX, and other traffic (via the persistant routes) go over IS.

Are there flaws to this plan? Should it work like this?
 
What happens if you have simultaneous demand for both?
 
bwana v.7 said:
What happens if you have simultaneous demand for both?
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Nope - thats the beauty - both connections run in parallel.
Unless, you mean I need both in parallel, and at "full throttle". That would most likely be shared then? Not too sure - will have to check tomorrow when both accounts are usable again (month end syndrome is happening here...)
 
Moederloos said:
Nope - thats the beauty - both connections run in parallel.
Unless, you mean I need both in parallel, and at "full throttle". That would most likely be shared then? Not too sure - will have to check tomorrow when both accounts are usable again (month end syndrome is happening here...)
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ok - didnt realize you have 2 adsl lines and modems.
 
I do this as well. The only thing I've encountered going "wrong" is me ;)

In the days-of-old [ aka soft capping ], I routed local traffic through a capped account (PPPoE connection) and int traffic through the uncapped acc (router) .... confuse the accounts for too long and you ended up with 2 capped accounts.

BTW, what router are you using ? There are not many routers on the market ATM that support concurrent routing and bridge mode. Mine is an SMC 7401BRA.
 
masticore said:
I do this as well. The only thing I've encountered going "wrong" is me ;)

In the days-of-old [ aka soft capping ], I routed local traffic through a capped account (PPPoE connection) and int traffic through the uncapped acc (router) .... confuse the accounts for too long and you ended up with 2 capped accounts.

BTW, what router are you using ? There are not many routers on the market ATM that support concurrent routing and bridge mode. Mine is an SMC 7401BRA.
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Linksys 54G (WRT54G?)
 
Moederloos said:
no, I only have one of each. That is my concern - what can go wrong?
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You can run two concurrent connections with different service providers on the same line with the same modem? I didnt think that was possible.
 
bwana v.8 said:
You can run two concurrent connections with different service providers on the same line with the same modem? I didnt think that was possible.
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Seems to be - no idea why it works though. As stated, I have a SAIX and IS ADSL account. I have routing to an IS server set up in my routing table.

Now, if I tracert to myadsl.co.za, it shows the link as going via SAIX
a tracert to the routed IS server, goes via IS IPC.

Also, checkip show my browser goes via SAIX (165.x.x.x ip), but I can connect to news.is.co.za, by routing that IP (the news server IP) via the IS ADSL account. One cannot connect to news.is.co.za with a SAIX account.
 
Firstly, This depends on what your ADSL modem supports.

Most ADSL modems wont allow you to establish a PPPoE session through it if you are already creating a session from the router itself.

This is what I have.
Normal old Telkom ADSL Pots Router, in bridge mode
Linux box that dials up 2 PPPoE sessions, 1 IS and 1 TelkomInternet
Very long scripts on the Linux box that routes all Local traffic over the SAIX link, and everything else over the IS link.

For a list of local networks:
telnet public-route-server.is.co.za
sh ip bgp
Everything that it returns is a network in South Africa.

It can be done with Windows too, but its hairy.

Good Luck.
 
Moederloos said:
Now, it seems that (default) internet traffic goes over SAIX, and other traffic (via the persistant routes) go over IS.
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So all internet traffic will go through the connection you made in Windows using bridged mode, and not the one set up on the router?

Just want to make sure, cos im considering setting up something similar.
 
nGAGEd55 said:
So all internet traffic will go through the connection you made in Windows using bridged mode, and not the one set up on the router?

Just want to make sure, cos im considering setting up something similar.
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All internet traffic (except what is specified in the routing table) does.
Manticore has a nice explanation etc at

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=36825
 
Hi there.

Here's my special little setup that i hope to achieve.

I want to connect to a select few ip's ....bout 5 of em through a saix account.
The rest i'm fine with if it goes through my is account.

How would i go about setting this up?

Pls note there are some special settings that i need to keep in mind.

The first is that i'm on a lan with a couple of friends an we share the costs associated with the IS/saix accounts.
The second would b that hopefully i can route all traffic through one proxy on my side an have everybody connect through that.

Any help would b appreciated greatly.

PS. we've got a mikrotek box giving us dhcp addy's at mo if it can be done with the winbox tools can anyone give a brief or detailed tutorial.......or even where i can find one.
 
Hi Armitage,

I just need to know what your current setup is on the Mikrotik.
Are you creating the PPPoE connections from the Mikrotik itself?
What version RouterOS are you running?
 
Im using MikroTik as well (most recent version 2.9.13).

Want to achieve the same - I can open multiple PPPoE connections with different providers, but would like to use one account for local access while the other will be used for International access.

Anyway to use the routes as published on public-route-server.is.co.za automatically on my MikroTik device?
 
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