HTTP traffic and load balancing?

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martinmo

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Hey peeples

I'm thinking of getting a Mikrotik routerboard 750 to get more experience with load balancing. I have a 4Mbps line with a 2Mbps Uncapped account with MWEB and a looking at getting a capped account with Afrihost(seeing as they are becoming generous with their capped accounts). My question to the wise ones is can you route HTTP traffic via both ISP's or does it have to be 1 protocol to 1 ISP?
 
martinmo said:
Hey peeples

I'm thinking of getting a Mikrotik routerboard 750 to get more experience with load balancing. I have a 4Mbps line with a 2Mbps Uncapped account with MWEB and a looking at getting a capped account with Afrihost(seeing as they are becoming generous with their capped accounts). My question to the wise ones is can you route HTTP traffic via both ISP's or does it have to be 1 protocol to 1 ISP?
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Your options are protocol based routing or round-robin balanced. It's key that whatever you use to balance and route be "state" aware for connections where the traffic must originate from a single source
I use PFSense with round-robin balancing on web traffic
 
PsyWulf said:
Your options are protocol based routing or round-robin balanced. It's key that whatever you use to balance and route be "state" aware for connections where the traffic must originate from a single source
I use PFSense with round-robin balancing on web traffic
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So essentially I could have for certain protocols running at speeds up to 4mbps. Is that correct? Also could PFSense be used on the Mikrotik 750?
 
If its multithread capable like http and torrenting then yes the max should cap out near 4
 
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