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  • MikroTik Load Balancing and Link Redundancy with PBR

    In computer networking, the Load Balancing technique is used to send network traffic over multiple gateways. If you have multiple ISP connections available, you can use load balancing technique to establish a stable network. You may now ask, why will I use multiple ISP connections? What are the benefits to use multiple ISP connections in my network? For your satisfaction, the following points are some reasons to use load balancing technique in your network. No ISP can give you 100% uptime guarantee. So, it will be better to use more than one ISP connection to ensure 100% uptime network. Sometimes you may have dependency (such as Mail, IPPBX etc.) on your uplink ISP but their service is not so good. In this case, you can use another ISP which provides better service. Your current ISP is better but high paid bandwidth. In this case, you can purchase another ISP bandwidth which is cheap but their connection is good, not better. If these are your current status, it is suggested to configure a load balancing and link redundancy network with multiple gateways. MikroTik Router has various load balancing and link redundancy methods (such as ECMP method, PCC method and PBR method) [...]

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