RV042 won't load balance

Good morning everyone,
I've had the RV042 router for some time. I currently have it setup with two internet connections. One from Speakeasy.net and the other from comcast. My problem is that, even though I have "weighted round robin" load balancing turned on, the only connection that ever works for downloading or uploading stuff is the speakeasy connection. The only time the comcast connection turns on is when there's a problem with the speakeasy connection.
I tried configuring it to prefer the comcast connection by setting the maximum download speed at 50Mb/s and the speakeasy max at 15Mb/s and I get nothing. I have it set to load balancing mode and it is not simply set to the fail over mode. Is there a way to get both of my connections working in an alternating fashion? I would like the router to know that if it's downloading movies of a *sensitive type* on the speakeasy connection, to use my comcast connection to continue my work because it has no load on it at the time.

Hello,
Many thanks for the screen shots and updates. A couple of thoughts.
The load balancing ought to load balance by sending more out of the one link than the other.
If I understand you correctly, it is not using the second connection except only when the primary is down. It appears you have this configured correctly.
For outgoing traffic I would expect to see some load balancing, although load balancing is not usually a perfect ratio ... but in your case you are not seeing anything.
For incoming traffic, this should depend based on the outgoing address. For example, if the WAN 1 interface was used, then the packets would be using the NAT'ed address of WAN1 and as such these packets should return via this interface.
Do you have any 1-to-1 NAT configured? I am wondering if this could skew the results by favoring one outgoing port and not the other.
Can you please check again to verify that there is in fact no load balancing what-so-ever? Many thanks in advance for your efforts.
For the failover however, you should probably use the other option which is to 'remove the connection' when down. The setting you have now will not remove the connection.
As for preferring one interface over another for downloads and the like, you can try protocol bindings. Example, lets say that your downloads occur on port 80. If you do not use port 80 for your work, you can bind these to the alternate WAN connection. Just a thought ... and this might allow you to 'direct' some traffic for recreational and the others for biz.
When using port binding, failover will still work.
I noticed a newer version of code, dated July 30 2009. This has a different date but appears to be the same version #. The link to the downloads is here:
http://tools.cisco.com/support/downloads/pub/Redirect.x?mdfid=282413304
Have a good night, Happy Thanksgiving too.
Andrew Lee Lissitz

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<raving>
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Thu Apr 19 00:20:53 2001 Initializing lastIndex=2 for a list of length=3Thu Apr
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Thanks for your advices.

RV042 load balancing problem

We have two network connections coming into the office. One is a private WAN and the other is an internet WAN. We have a RV042 Router configured for load balancing. On Wan1 we have our private WAN which includes Exchange, and 6 VPNs. On WAN2 we have a Public IP, and workers from home. Both connections are 5Mg T1s and both have the ability to reach the internet but only wan2 has a public IP (76.x.x.x) were as WAN1 has a private IP. (10.x.x.x).
Now were the problem lies is our new web based Payroll system does not support load balancing. We have to shutdown one side when we want to do payroll (turn load balancing off.)
Now is there a way to make our payroll computers only use one side? modify host file maybe? Or force a certain MAC address to only use WAN1 OR is there a better router that can Accomplish this?
Any help would be appreciated
Peter Labelle

I ran in to this problem at a client where we had an RV042. Different scenario though. We had 2 static IP from 2 different ISP's. We had an accounting program that used HTTPS on port 443 hosted at a different location. We had to bind outgoing port 443 to WAN1 to prevent disconnect problems. This caused a problem in case that internet connection went down.
What we did was create a service on the RV042 for TCP port 4433 and binded the traffic to WAN2. On the side hosting the accounting package we created a rule in that router to translate all public port 4433 requests to internal 443 requests.
On the workstations we had to leave 2 desktop shortcuts one that pointed to 443 and one to 4433. That way if one link doesn't work they can just use the second link.
It's not the best solution but at least it works until they ok a swap out to a router that supports better binding.
I'm not provided this as a solution but maybe it can spark an idea of a workaround.
I know a company called Xincom use to make a dual wan router that was decently priced that supported strict binding per internal ip address. The build quality wasn't the best and they use to die all the time but maybe their new units are better. When they worked though they were very good and I never had a problem.

RV042 load balancing and OWA

I have a rv042 router with two internet connections. I have setp the WAN1 and WAN2 and set the load balance mode.
Surfing on internet is then not a problem and I checked that I was using the two internet connection.
However if I try to connect to my corporate (OWA) outlook web access i am looping on the first page where I should provide my credentials.
I know that most of the load balancer could be set up with a sticky bit to keep the session on the same WAN connection, but reading the documentation, googling and searching on this community I do not find any help.
Does someone have an idea and could help me.
Thanks in advance.

Hello,
i've have a RV042 too, and i have the same problem.
Loadbalance work for every single request, so every website get requests from both connection even if there is a single user browsing.
Website side, some requests are "logged in" (if request came from the same IP the user logged in), but not if request come from the other wan (because IP mismatch). I've experienced many problems with many websites, not only OWA, not only requesting me to log-in continously, but also server-side crash because server session get lost in the middle of transactions.
Protocol Binding is NOT the solution, since it will require to bind all HTTP to just one connection (this way, where is loadbalance?) and if that wan fails over you get lost of connectivity.
Right now I didn't found any solution to use loadbalancing correctly, the right way to do would be that the RV042 remember the association CLIENT/SERVER->WAN, so that once i client connect to a server the router whould use only that one WAN, and when a WAN fails the table get cleared to restart balancing requests on remaining WANs.
Hope to see this function on next firmware..

RV042 - Load Balancing question

Hi, I have the RV042 (firmware 1.3.13.02-tm) in Load Balancing mode. When I do a speedtest, the result is the total bandwidth available on my 2 connections, i.e. 8-9,000 Kbit/Sec (each line is approx 4,500 Kbit/Sec). When I stream from Netflix, the bandwidth throughput is about 4-4,5000 Kbit/Sec. Should not the RV042 stream Netflix as the combined speed between WAN 1 and 2, i.e. at 8-9,000?

Load balance permits more available bandwidth. It may effective double the speed because the requests have more pipe available to utilize but not because it increases the over all speed of your connection. If your connections are 5 mbit they remain 5 mbit.
-Tom
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RV042 v3 load balancing MTU setting?

RV042 v3 on firmware: 4.2.1.02
Wan 1 is connected to a PPPoE dsl line via a modem in bridge mode using LLC
Wan 2 is connected to a PPPoA dsl line via a modem in bridge mode using VC-MUX. (this is a Draytek modem that bridges PPPoE to PPPoA)
The connection on both Wan ports of the RV is set to PPPoE
What is the ideal MTU setting for both Wan ports in the above configuration?
Thanks for any feedback

Juan Ignacio Del Rosario wrote:Correct me if im wrong.when we understand the rules of traffic (outgoing and ingoing traffic), the server(in the internet) which we requested to will reply only on the ip address that we used for the request right? if thats the case, if i control the outside traffic i can also say that the incoming traffic will be destined to the ip address that i used to make a request.example:when I create traffic comes out in the WAN 1. my requested page (facebook.com) will also comes-in in WAN 1.is that considered in Load balancing?
Yes, traffic will return to the same public IP (WAN) that originated it. I thought your OP and maybe due to the 1st response you wanted to also protocol bind the inbound traffic too which isn't necassary as you've descibed here but if you initiate traffic from the internet to your LAN you just have to pick the correct public IP.
Which direction do you want this to work? Are clients on this LAN initiating RD connections to hosts through the internet or are you wanting to connect to hosts on this LAN from the internet?

RV042 Load Balancing not working correctly?

We have an RV042 on firmware version 1.3.13.02 and 2 ISPs:
WAN1 = Telepacific T1
1.5Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up
WAN2 = AT&T U-Verse
12Mbps down and 5Mbps up
I have it set to Load Balance, Primary WAN = WAN2
Network Service Detection enabled, only pinging the Remote Host of 4.2.2.2 and set to Generate Log
Bandwidth is set to:
WAN1 = 1000Kbps upstream & downstream
WAN2 = 5040Kbps upstream & 12000Kbps downstream
It seems to pick WAN1 a lot of the time. Do I have something setup wrong?

Ok, so what do you recommend? To setup binding for ports important to direct over say… WAN1 (my fast access) shall I also keep the bandwidth management set up as is, example:
For me it’s confusing because this config appears to be clear to me that has to control traffic the way I want .
Thanks for your response.
H Aragon
De: jasbryan
Enviado el: lunes, 20 de febrero de 2012 03:18 p.m.
Para: HECTOR MANUEL ARAGON
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RV042 v3 Cable/DSL Load Balancing Issue

I am attempting to load balance 2 ISP connections:
WAN 1- Comcast Cable 1500 MTU
WAN 2- Verizon DSL 1492 MTU
Both connections come up and load balancing is occuring.
After WAN2 DSL is connected to the RV042, web browsing on LAN devices periodically and randomly times out. This oocurs when accessing varous sites including sights on the LAN such as device web configuration pages for the RV042 and the DSL modem. Repeated browser reload commands will bring the pages up. This happens on devices connected by wire and connected wirelessly to the RV042 via an access point. It looks like what an MTU issue would appear and I've dropped the Cable MTU configuration down to 1492 which doesn't resolve the issue. Summarily it appears that after DSL is connect to WAN2, the RV042 starts to choke on web page routing.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

marksbond wrote:Do they share the same switch?
No, the WAN ports are separate from the LAN (switch) ports.
I do know that although the DSL modem is configured in the bridge mode, it's web configuration page remains accessible at 192.168.1.1 if it is accessed directly from a PC while both are off of the network. This is also the address of the RV042 when accessed from the LAN side.
That could be the problem. Have you tried changing IP address on the modem?
I have a similar situation, but I haven't enabled the modem in bridge mode. The modem is used also as AP, so I gave it an address on a different network, disabled DHCP, and connected it from switch to switch on the RV. Yes, 2 cables from the modem switch to the RV, one to the WAN2 port, another to the switch. I also gave the modem a second IP, one in the LAN space, that way I can configure and have general access to its Web interface from the LAN. There's probably a better solution.
I did note in another discussion that Network Service Detection should not be enabled on WAN2 as it is a bridged PPPoE connection. I should note that the only devices connected to the LAN when this issue is occurring are a wireless access point with 2 or 3 clients and a PC wired to the RV042.
There are differences between modems, some can be accessed when they are in bridge mode, some not. But sending pings shouldn't work, the RV is configured to connect to a modem and use pppoe to the ISP, no modem IP defined anywhere (from the RV point of view) so there is no way to send a ping when the IP address is unknown.

RV042 Load balancing function

I have Rv042 so I need it to make load balancing for 2 ADSL lines.
The 2 ADSL modems working as a router (not bridge) so I connect ADSL1 (adsl router) to Internet1 in RV042 and ADSL2 to internet2/DMZ .
In the RV042 configuration I make WAN1 and WAN to obtain the ip automatically from the DHCP which are enabled in the ADSL routers.
Also in RV042 the DHCP is enable to assign ip address to the LAN.
from a PC try to access the internet I can't.
I did the same scenario with QNO FQR8010 it's working but with RV042 it's not.
What is the problem.
Note: I need the ADSL routers to still work as routers.
Regards.
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Try this:
Required ports to use Google Talk
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If you're having trouble connecting to Google Talk through your firewall or proxy, it may be because some necessary ports are blocked.
In order to connect to Google Talk and start sending IMs, you'll need to enable TCP connections to talk.google.com on port 5222, or on port 443.
If you'd like to make calls or transfer files through Google Talk, you need to:
Enable UDP connections to anywhere on any port; or
Enable TCP connections to anywhere on port 443.
If you're behind a public or corporate network that is blocking these ports or protocols, please contact your local network administrator for further instructions.
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