Saving International Bandwidth by running multiple accounts.

[Matthysdt]

I recently thought I'd give it a try to dial two simultaneous PPPoE connections over our Billion Router on a single ADSL line, and it actually worked.
The one account was with Telkom and the other XDSL.
I noticed that all combinations don't work though, like Telkom & Mweb, just don't gel.

So having successfully done this, I should theoretically be able to buy a cheap local-bandwidth cap from Telkom or XDSL to route all my local traffic through, using my capped international bandwidth ONLY for international access, even from day 1 of the month.

But to do this, I need to set up some routing, can someone tell me where I can find the list of IP Ranges assigned to (and by) our local ISP's so that I can distinguish between local and international traffic?

Cheers!

 

[Pada]

Have a look at this thread which has a few scripts for splitting traffic on some routers.

You'll have to use a script to add the routers, because there's no way that you're going to add 700+ static routes via the web interface.

Of course you can always add the 3 following static routes for local stuff:
41.0.0.0 subnet mask 255.0.0.0
165.0.0.0 subnet mask 255.0.0.0
196.0.0.0 subnet mask 255.0.0.0

By adding those routes, most local stuff will be routed correctly, but you might get that some international sites will not work due to 3 simplified routes that I gave.

 

[stevenv]

I think there are some applications written by people on this forum that can do that type of thing. Search for "traffic splitting" or something like that.

 

[Pada]

hehe stevenv. I wrote it. Just look in my signature...

 

[Matthysdt]

Thank you, those were the ranges I'm looking for!
As for my router, I'm using MikroTik and setting up routes and IP Ranges & lists etc is as easy as pie!


Edit: Pada, thanks to the link in your signature, I came across this tutorial which does exactly what I do! And it includes all the IP Ranges I needed! Thanx!
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Routi...aped_traffic_through_3_separate_adsl_accounts

 

[Pada]

Matthysdt: if you're using a MikroTik router, then you should be able to find a script. I've done the traffic splitting with 600+ routes on my RB750. If you're not using a transparent proxy server, then you can use address lists which looks much cleaner and probably performs better too.

See http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/How_to_apply_different_limits_for_Local/Overseas_traffic and http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Routi...aped_traffic_through_3_separate_adsl_accounts

Here's where I wrote a script to populate the routes:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...nternational?p=3511026&viewfull=1#post3511026