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May 5th, @12:15AM
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Re: [Servers] Dual WAN routing question
To some extent I do what you ask by using a relatively inexpensive Linksys RV082 dual wan router. I setup DNS and have router rules to always point certain traffic such as SMTP and HTTPS to a specific WAN port and IP address since some protocols are very picky about IP address changes during a session.
One of my web sites »portscan.dcs-net.net also provides a simple port scanning feature for firewall testing. Some of the ports that are scanned are blocked by one of my ISPs, so I also have router rules setup to force those outgoing packets through the correct WAN connection.
Other than that I use round robin DNS and the weighted round robin load balancing in the router to distribute the load fairly evenly. Whether or not the RV082 would be suitable for your application would depend on exactly what that application does and what ports are used. It sounds is if you are only talking about normal web browsing, and for that, simple round robin DNS and the weighted round robin load balancing in the router should work quite well (it does for me).
You may want to go the the Linksys web site and download the user guide to see if it appears possible to use the RV082 for your application. There is also an on-line emulator at »ui.linksys.com/files/RV082/1.1.6···mary.htm but that uses a rather old firmware, so some of the settings and features have changed on the more current firmware releases.
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Just in case you don't know what I mean by round robin dns, here are a couple of examples:
Here are a couple of samples of hosts that use HTTPS and SMTP respectively and need a single IP address because of possible problems with round robin DNS.
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