Router for Be Pro, plus advanced forwarding features.. ?

Hi all,

I'm soon changing ISP to Be (Pro). I'll be having two lines installed, both with Be Pro.

What I would like to know is, what router should I get to be able to forward traffic up a specific line depending on what external IP address it is headed to / from.

I know this is possible on advanced Cisco routers, but could this be achieved either through using Be's standard routers (TG585 V7), or perhaps a flashed DG834, or the Vigor 2820, or something entirely different? Would be nice to have a web interface to make setup and maintenance easier.

Is this a feature of load-balancing? (something the Vigor 2820 supports). Would an advanced feature of load-balancing let me define what traffic goes where (not port based, but destination IP based)

Any help would be appreciated,
Many thanks

That sounds like a function that would be required on your PCs rather than on your router/modem. e.g. I guess router 1 is connected to line 1 and router 2 to line 2 and you'd like your PCs (for example) iPlayer and YouTube traffic to go via router 1 and work traffic to go via router 2.

Edited by deleted (Thu 11-Mar-10 18:42:23)

You've got the scenario right, at it's basic form. Heavy FTP/email/VPN up/down one line, 'normal' internet up/down the other.

Right now I'm using two Cisco 800 series routers, one is 192.168.0.1 and the other is 0.3.
All computers default to the 0.1 router, and within the 0.1 router is a set of arguments that, depending on where traffic is headed, either forward it to 0.3 to go up the second line, or leave it alone to go up the first line.

Either this is something only Cisco's are capable of, or there's hidden functionality of some 'normal' routers.

(If you're wondering why I'm using Cisco routers, it's because I'm currently using a managed broadband service - so their engineers applied all the rules).

Thanks again!

If I wanted to route in that way cheaply I'd bung a Linux box between your lines and your PCs. But (unluckily for you) I have no idea if that would work or not as I only have one phone line!

Line bonding and QoS seems to be a better option?

Perhaps if I were to use flashed DG834's and then unlock the telnet service on them, I could use the derivative of BusyBox linux they use for any advanced configuration. Though I've no idea what that would do to the stability of the router as a whole.

I suppose the last-resort thing is just set the default router / gateway on each computer to the router they're most likely to use anyway. For example, the Xserve server would only use line 2, along with a computer that does a lot of uploading to FTP servers etc.

Do Cisco themselves do any cheap-ish ADSL2+ routers?

In reply to a post by nemeth782:

Line bonding and QoS seems to be a better option?

Didn't see your reply until after I had posted, sorry.

The Vigor 2820 offers line balancing and QoS features - think that would be a good option?

Balancing.... Bonding... ? One in the same or different things?

Cisco kit doesn't come cheap.
Linksys are the Cisco consumer end

You may be able to do something along the lines you are asking with Tomato firmware
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tomato_Firmware

The DrayTek 2820 will do what the OP wants.

Edited to add that I do exactly what the OP wants with my DrayTek routers.

Edited by Sandgrounder (Thu 11-Mar-10 20:47:48)

In reply to a post by VanHelsing:

Balancing.... Bonding... ? One in the same or different things?

Different - and neither addresses you orininal question.