traffic balance, problem with limited conections and Real IP

[BIG_Daddy]

Hello! I have 4 External conections and 1 internal all of them are conected to one phisycal network but with diffrent ip adresses for external and internal ethernet adpters. My 4 external conections are with real static IP's but these ip's are with limited conections per ip and they are from one subnet(example: first ip is 80.72.73.66 second is 80.72.73.67.....) they are pointing to one and the same gateway and DNS. I thinck all the traffic goes only to one of the lan cards(am i right?or wingate handle with this?I think the problem is that the external conections goes trhu one gateway.). Its possible to sum the traffic of my external adapters and their connections? And if this is not possible can i route specific services of internal clients to go out from specific external adapter(IP).
Thank you in advance!
Excuse me for bad English:)!

[Ekkas]

I also need to load-balance multiple connections (instead of assigning services to certain ones or break users in groups) as I serve 100+users with www and 512k just doesn't cut it. Under "www proxy/gateways" you're supposed to be able to select 'rotate between connections...' but it just doesn't work and no one seems bothered to reply to this issue. I found quite a few users on forums that would like to 'combine bandwidth' and Wingate is supposed to be able to do it but...

PS:I understand that 'round robin' would still limit each connection/session to 512k but at least when browsing users will (in theory) get the impression of faster speeds as traffic is (supposedly) balanced between the multiple connections.

PLEASE WINGATE GUYS, HELP. IF I CAN'T GET THIS TO WORK SOON, I'LL HAVE TO DROP WINGATE ALLTOGETHER AND USE LINUX SQUID WITH SOME OTHER LOAD BALANCING SOLUTION... Hmm...

[MattP]

Hi,

It seems like you have slightly different issues.

Big Daddy - You say that you have 4 different external adapters but they are all pointing at the same gateway, do you have a DMZ?

You can't really put the bandwidth together, especially if they're all going through the same gateway, but WinGate doesn't allow bandwidth consolidation at this time. However you can configure the different services to use different gateways, just go to the Gateways menu (for example in the WWW proxy service) and choose your gateway policy.

Ekkas - As I said above WinGate doesn't allow bandwidth consolidation so I dont' think you're going to be able to do what you're trying to do. We do have plans to introduce an overall Gateway control becuase at the moment you have to choose your gateway policy per service. We have looked at consolidating bandwidth before, but there are problems when you have secure connections that have gone out one interface trying to come in another interface.

You can rotate traffic out different interfaces per service, but this rotates sessions rather than packets, how have you tested to see if it works?

Regards,

Matt

[ekkas2]

Thanks, I've tried different settings (rotate/use any/failover) but Internet connection either 'breaks' alltogether, or only one interface is used.

I don't want to advertise products here, but since this is a common problem, have a look at Linksys RV042 & RV082 that can combine 2 WAN ports & wait for this...
the Linksys RV016 VPN router that can combine bandwidth of up to 7 WAN ports!!!

I'm defininately ordering a RV016!!!

Thanks for all help but I believe this is the solution for combining bandwidth.

Cheers :-))