Draytek 3200 with multiple connections

[richardcrabb1]

Dear All,
Does anyone have success using Draytek 3200 router with a number of public IP subnet connections, with or without ADSL? I would be grateful for feed back.

Kind regards
Richard Crabb

[MovedGoalPosts]

Thread moved to Networking since it's more about router configurations

Whilst my office uses a Draytek 2920 Dual Wan router, with VM business cable and an ADSL connection, we only need a single IP range internal LAN, and we don't really have any public facing services hosted locally. However the Draytek router appears to work well, for our 20 odd user network.

Are you having a specific configuration problem, or just need to know if it will work?

[richardcrabb1]

Thank you Rob for your feedback. I was particularly interested in the load balancing function. We have one with two ADSL connections, one using a PPPoE modem, but the load balancing does not work. It seems to send all traffic down the first WAN connection.

Richard

[ferretuk]

I had a Draytek dual WAN router (2930 I think) and just about got the load balancing to work but then abandoned it due to problems with secure sites etc that expected all connections to come from the same IP address.

[MovedGoalPosts]

As our VM cable connection is now much faster than the ADSL our Draytek isn't set to load balance but to use the VM WAN with the ADSL as fallover. Not quite sure if the fallover is working properly as a recent crash of the business superhub stopped everything from working. I might need to check the latest Draytek firmware.

I did use loadbalancing, and that seemed to work well. Some traffic though needed to be routed specifically from one connection or another, particularly https connections, or I'd get the issues ferretuk reported.

[ferretuk]

Originally Posted by Rob

Some traffic though needed to be routed specifically from one connection or another, particularly https connections,

That's the way I fixed it but then, of course, if the WAN link that the https traffic is configured to route through fails you lose the https sites completely until you manually go in and change things...

[MovedGoalPosts]

In theory there is the checkbox that allows failover to the other connection. Not sure how well that failover works, see above.

[qasdfdsaq]

Just get an Openwrt router if you want load balancing or failover, it has 3 methods for both, which will work fine even with secure sites.

IMO, Draytek's are overpriced unless you absolutely need something that works out-of-the-box