>>Reading Faisal’s article now The credit for the solution belongs to Kevin Meyers (IP Architects)
I only shared the link :) Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "Paul McCall" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 1:35:33 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Splitting Network Traffic in an OSPF environment > 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] > > wrote: >> That solution is brilliant. >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Faisal Imtiaz < [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 >>> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] >>>> From: "Paul McCall" < [email protected] > >>>> To: [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] ] On Behalf Of Paul McCall >>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 11:32 AM >>>> To: [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 >>>> [email protected] >>>> www.pdmnet.com >>>> www.floridabroadband.com >> -- >> Carl Peterson >> PORT NETWORKS >> 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 >> Baltimore, MD 21202 >> (410) 637-3707
