We have done this as well, but we need more granular control than just “splitting” the traffic. I wasn’t detailed enough I guess, of the 7 towers that are fed through this tower, we want to feed probably (2) specific towers. We need that granular control.
Reading Faisal’s article now From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Fankhauser Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 1:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Splitting Network Traffic in an OSPF environment Paul, I have done this before and it works pretty easily. So if you want to send half the traffic through the one backhaul and then half through another path, just manually adjust the metric cost on the routers that are on the closer hop count to a higher value until it is the same exact cost for traffic to go both paths. Then it will evenly split the traffic between paths. You have to be careuful that both backhauls have the same capacity otherwise if one starts to peak out (might be running lower modulation) you may get some weird results. On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Carl Peterson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That solution is brilliant. On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Here's an article about some innovative way to do this... http://www.stubarea51.net/2016/10/27/wisp-design-using-ospf-to-build-a-transit-fabric-over-unequal-links/ Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232<tel:305%20663%205518%20x%20232> Help-desk: (305)663-5518<tel:%28305%29663-5518> Option 2 or Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ From: "Paul McCall" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 11:33:42 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Splitting Network Traffic in an OSPF environment Did get to finish this… From: Af [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Paul McCall Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 11:32 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Splitting Network Traffic in an OSPF enviroment We have a “feed tower” that feeds several other towers (some directly, some a hop or 2 away) and its main BH (AirFiber 5x) is nearing capacity. All 3.65 spectrum is used up, and same with 5 Ghz. The secondary that sits largely unused (non-preferred OSPF path) has about 100Mbit capacity and we would like to somehow split our load from the feed tower. All the “subtowers” are on their own subnet(s) all running OSPF on a Mikrotik at each tower. OSPF pretty much is all or nothing when picking a path. There has to be a simple way of making this work. Paul Paul McCall, President PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc. 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800<tel:772-564-6800> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.pdmnet.com<http://www.pdmnet.com> www.floridabroadband.com<http://www.floridabroadband.com> -- Carl Peterson PORT NETWORKS 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 Baltimore, MD 21202 (410) 637-3707<tel:(410)%20637-3707>
