Edgerouter load balancing

[@authhvuafopintsaf]

This guide really simplifies the process-load balancing made easy!

[@thetechfirm]

thanks

[@diordteuguf93]

that's awesome Tony, very important thinking in a second road to be ready for problems that can take down your normal way of working, this need to be always a standard config by default for all the IT things!

[@thetechfirm]

Exactly

[@supriyochatterjee4095]

Awesome, excellent video, wish to see lot more such real world practical troubleshooting videos covering all concepts of Network and advance Network and Firewalls and Load Balancers troubleshooting in depth.

[@thetechfirm]

Thank you I have over 600 of them on my channel enjoyed

[@xpagesxdectcvk]

A solid resource for anyone looking to boost their network game.

[@thetechfirm]

thanks for the support

[@ioannis69k]

Thanks for sharing ! Which model is this, may you please share it ? Thanks.

[@thetechfirm]

I've done this on many edge routers

[@ioannis69k]

@@thetechfirm ok so any edge can have two wan interfaces configured ? Thanks

[@JavinCraig]

Is the failover as consistent when the your upstream carrier is down? Instead of shutting the interface, what if your next hop (modem) loses connection to the carrier, so the interface is still up, but the traffic out has no path. Does that failover have any sort of detection outside of physical link loss?

[@thetechfirm]

@@JavinCraig Funny you should mention that i'm actually working on that exact scenario for my next article. But to answer your question, yes it is supposed to work under that scenario as well

[@sasiuru]

I have been using about 5 years already EdgeRouter (small 5 port version) just for that. Currently eth0 is connected to 1G fiber and eth1 to 50M 5G modem as an backup. It has jumped between those two multiple times. Only reason I have find out that is because outside IP changes and VPN connection to work is dropped due that, or at least it starts to reconnecting procedure. At the beginning it was using 100/10M VDSL and 20M 4G, on that combo it was more common to have 100/10 VDSL (over copper, 40+ year old cables hanging up on air) dropping or having issues. Back then that backup/failover were more in use. On that case (VDSL) EdgeRouter had still IP from telco suplied "all burns in one" VDSL/WLAN/Router box, but next hop (DSLAM) weren't no longer responding.