load balancing – Mikrotik Tips

Nov82019 by Achmad Mardiansyah2 Comments

Combining 8 ISPs with a single mikrotik device

GPON, layer 2, Layer 3, load balancing, PCC

Hello all, this time, we would like to share our project of combining 8 ISPs with a single Mikrotik device. So, our client already subscribes to internet connections from 8 different ISPs, and want to use them to provide internet connections to his customers. The reasons are simple: For availability purposes. If one connection is down, the customer is still able to connect via other links (there are eight connections in total, you know that, right? :-p) To increase capacity and also sharing traffic load among the connections. These mean let say if each link has a 100 Mbps datarate, having 8 of them will result in 800 Mbps in total. Sounds good, right? so this is what we did: configure ONU modems to be in the bridge-mode. The upstream…

Jun142019 by administratorNo Comments

June 2019, MUM Kuala Lumpur, Troubleshooting load balancing

load balancing, PCC

GLC networks participated on Mikrotik User Meeting (MUM) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on June 12, 2019. Recorded presentation is available on youtube below: and presentation slide is available on slideshare: Troubleshooting load balancing from Achmad Mardiansyah

Jan152018 by Achmad MardiansyahNo Comments

January 2018, MUM Manila, Philipines, GLC Networks Presentation : BGP vs OSPF

BGP, BGP session, internet, ISP, Layer 3, Layer 4, Layer 5, load balancing, Router

This is a presentation from GLCNetworks at Mikrotik User Meeting, Manila, 15 january 2018. We talked about the essential differences from BGP and OSPF routing protocol, which is important for those who plan to operate both. MUM agenda is available here: https://mum.mikrotik.com/2018/PH/info/EN This topic is part of GLC Networks training. For more information, please contact us here or stay tuned with our schedule. Recording is available here: Presentation slide can be accessed here: Mikrotik User Meeting Manila: bgp vs ospf from Achmad Mardiansyah

Oct192017 by administratorNo Comments

October 2017, ISP load balancing with Mikrotik Nth

load balancing, webinar

In this webinar, we discussed an advanced topic of mikrotik firewall features: nth packet matcher. we assumed the readers already have a solid understanding of prerequisite knowledge. we started the discussion with the basic concepts of traffic load balancing, and then move to the nth discussion. (more…)

Sep202017 by Achmad Mardiansyah4 Comments

combining 2 ISP with one mikrotik routerboard

load balancing, PCC

In this project (click here for the detail), our client requests to combining 2 ISP with one mikrotik. This case is different from the previous one that was using BGP protocol and whole end devices are using public IP address. This project is challenging because both ISP gives Public IP address which is just enough for point-to-point connection only. End-devices (laptop, PC, etc) will use private IP address, where router will do NAT (Network Address Translation) on these private IP when they are going out to internet. Topology of the network can be seen at the picture above. So, the technical plan would be: (more…)

Mar302014 by Achmad Mardiansyah2 Comments

Apakah bandwidth meningkat setelah terkoneksi dengan multi ISP

load balancing

Artikel ini masih berbicara tentang koneksi multi ISP. Jadi, untuk alasan performance dan reliability koneksi, banyak organisasi yang berlangganan 2 atau lebih ISP. Bagi mereka bekerja tanpa terkoneksi dengan internet adalah seperti ikan tanpa air, hehehe :-p. nah pertanyaan yang sering muncul adalah, "apakah bandwidth meningkat setelah terkoneksi dengan multi ISP ?". jadi, ketika kita berlangganan ISP 1 sebesar 5 mbps, dan ISP 2 sebesar 5 mbps juga, maka datarate download kita akan menjadi 5 + 5 = 10 mbps? apakah benar demikian? untuk membahasnya lihat gambar topologi dibawah ini (more…)

Mar202014 by Achmad MardiansyahNo Comments

apa itu PCC?

load balancing

Masih terkait dengan dengan load balancing, kali ini kita akan membahas lebih detil tentang apa itu PCC. Apa itu PCC? PCC adalah feature untuk mentracking (melacak) koneksi yang lalu-lalang melewati router berdasarkan kriteria tertentu. fasilitas ini berada dalam menu ip firewall khususnya table mangle. PCC digunakan untuk load balancing dimana kita menggabungkan 2 atau lebih ISP. Dengan kata lain, jika berbicara PCC, hampir dapat dipastikan kita memiliki multi koneksi. apa istimewanya PCC? di PCC kita dapat melakukan tracking connection berdasarkan kriteria tertentu (misal: kombinasi dari source-ip, destination-ip, both-ip, dan port) dan memasukanya ke dalam group yang kemudian dipakai untuk load balancing. Jadi PCC ini adalah tool untuk melakukan marking connection. (more…)

Mar202014 by Achmad Mardiansyah9 Comments

menggabungkan 2 isp ke dalam 1 routerboard

load balancing

Pada project kali ini, klien kami mempunyai request untuk menggabungkan 2 isp ke dalam 1 routerboard. Berbeda dengan kasus sebelumnya yang relatif mudah karena menggunakan protokol BGP dan seluruhnya menggunakan IP public, kasus ini cukup menantang karena kedua ISP tersebut memberikan IP publik point-to-point sementara komputer klien menggunakan IP private sehingga ketika mengakses internet maka router perlu melakukan NAT untuk mentranslasikan IP private ke IP public. Agar lebih jelas dalam memahami kondisi jaringan, kita memerlukan gambar topologi jaringan yang dapat dilihat pada gambar di bawah: Jadi, rencana implementasi teknisnya adalah: (more…)