06-20-2023 01:32 PM
Hello there,
I have a router 4321 running iWAN and PfRv3 with two internet links of 30MB/s. The question is... is there a way to balance the traffic when one of link hit 100% utilization? (the egress traffic change to another link less used)
Thank you very much.
06-20-2023 08:41 PM
You're asking for the second link to only handle traffic in excess of the first link when it hits 100%?
For example, if you had, on your combined 60 Mbps, 15 Mbps, total, that should all be on first link, ditto if 30 Mbps total, but if 40 or 50 Mbps, total, 30 on the first link and 10 and 20, respectively, on the second link?
06-21-2023 07:14 AM
"You're asking for the second link to only handle traffic in excess of the first link when it hits 100%?"
I meant when any link hit 100% the traffic change to another link less used. I would say that the trigger would be the when hit 100% in any one.
Thank you very much.
06-21-2023 08:38 AM
My experience with PfR doesn't include PfRv3 and/or IWAN, but in the earlier OER/PfR, I don't recall the technology supporting what I understand you're asking for, i.e. wait until any link hits 100% and shift excess over to a less utilized link.
What the technology did was proportionally move flows about to try to obtain equal loading on all links. I.e. The goal was equal percentage loads on all links. (BTW, the load percentage was based on link capacity, so, for example, if you had a FE and GE link, each might be loaded at 20%, but the GE would be carrying 10x as much.)
I vaguely recall (???) there was an option for "$ cost" consideration, i.e. if one link charged more for bandwidth usage, it would only be loaded when lower cost links were 100%.
Again, though, waiting for any link to hit 100% before rebalancing, excluding possible bandwidth costs, wasn't done, as I recall, in the earlier versions.
Also, BTW, this technology didn't immediately move flows about, because it sought to maintain a load average over some time period and it also recognized that a flow moved to another link might adjust its own bandwidth usage, based on bandwidth availability. I.e. a kind of dampening to link utilizations. (This "dampening" is important, because actually, any link has only two usage levels, 0 and 100%. When we say something like 50% usage, what is really happening is 100% usage during half the measured time period. So, PfR, by default [?], IMO, works better when it doesn't LB waiting until 100% happens.)
06-20-2023 09:45 PM
use a pbr
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