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27 Aug 2010 10:37 #63555 by petershelley
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Vigor V3300 - Firmware Version is 2.6.0.0 (EN)

Hi,

We've got 2 BT DSL lines, 2 Static IPs. I want to route all our out going emails from our Exchange server out through 1 of the BT lines (WAN2).

Here's what we have set.
Network - WAN
Load Balance Enabled (Auto Weight Enabled)
WAN1 & WAN2 ticked in Load Balance Column.

Network - Load Balance Policy
Protocol SMTP
Souce IP - 10.1.1.3
Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0
Dest IP - Blank
Subnet Mask - Black
Dest Port Start - 25
Dest Port End - 25
Network Interface - WAN2
Strict Bind - Yes

When sending out an email from a workstation or OWA they are still going out through WAN1 (checking this using the email message internet headers - this shows the static IP for WAN1)

Emails from the Exchange Server are going out via a connector to a specific SMTP server on the internet (our domain host) & not routed via DNS, I have check the settings for this and it's on the default port of 25. I have tried setting the IP in the Dest IP field, but that made no differance.

I am missing something from the policy ?

Thanks in advance

Peter :roll:

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27 Aug 2010 15:00 #63564 by brickcounter
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Hi,

We have a very similar setup and similar experiences to you. It appears that 'Strict Bind' is not very strict at all.

I have had better results by setting up the same as you but in the Load balance column, untick WAN2 and set WAN1 as 100%. This should put everything through WAN1 unless you tell it specifically to go through WAN2, eg your SMTP traffic.

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27 Aug 2010 15:11 #63567 by petershelley
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Thanks for the response.

This will I guess obvioulsy turn off any load balancing to WAN2 apart from the SMTP traffic?

Trouble is each of the lines only provides a 2Mb connection so we really need to load balance.

Reason for having SMTP on WAN2 is that we have a lot of remote users on WAN1 and we added the 2nd line to help coupe with the traffic from us in the office. I just wanted to make sure that emails went out and in on WAN2 - some of the mails coming in and out can be 10Mb plus ... people never learn.

I guess the other option is to get all the VPNs setup to come in on the WAN2 IP...

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27 Aug 2010 15:49 #63569 by brickcounter
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yes, it just spilts the traffic rather than balances it.

You would think that in your scenario 'strict bind' should achieve something though - frustrating for you

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27 Aug 2010 15:56 #63570 by petershelley
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I would attempt a firmware update, but could do without something else breaking ;)

nevermind, cheers for the responses

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