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Since WAN 1 has a smaller load balancing index (meaning that it is less utilized than WAN 2),
the ZyWALL will send the next new session traffic through WAN 1.
7.4.2 Weighted Round Robin
Similar to the Round Robin (RR) algorithm, the Weighted Round Robin (WRR) algorithm sets
the ZyWALL to send traffic through each WAN interface in turn. In addition, the WAN
interfaces are assigned weights. An interface with a larger weight gets more of the traffic than
an interface with a smaller weight.
This algorithm is best suited for situations when the bandwidths set for the two WAN
interfaces are different.
For example, in the figure below, the configured available bandwidth of WAN1 is 1M and
WAN2 is 512K. You can set the ZyWALL to distribute the network traffic between the two
interfaces by setting the weight of WAN1 and WAN2 to 2 and 1 respectively. The ZyWALL
assigns the traffic of two sessions to WAN1 for every session's traffic assigned to WAN2.
Figure 45
Weighted Round Robin Algorithm Example
7.4.3 Spillover
With the spillover load balancing algorithm, the ZyWALL sends network traffic to the
primary interface until the maximum allowable load is reached, then the ZyWALL sends the
excess network traffic of new sessions to the secondary WAN interface. Configure the
Route
Priority
metrics in the
WAN General
screen to determine the primary and secondary WANs.
In cases where the primary WAN interface uses an unlimited access Internet connection and
the secondary WAN uses a per-use timed access plan, the ZyWALL will only use the
secondary WAN interface when the traffic load reaches the upper threshold on the primary
WAN interface. This allows you to fully utilize the bandwidth of the primary WAN interface
while avoiding overloading it and reducing Internet connection fees at the same time.
Table 37
Least Load First: Example 2
INTERFACE
OUTBOUND
INBOUND
AVERAGE LOAD
BALANCING INDEX
(OM / OA + IM / IA) / 2
AVAILABLE
(OA)
MEASURED
(OM)
AVAILABLE
(IA)
MEASURED
(IM)
WAN 1
512 K
412 K
256 K
102 K
( 0.8 + 0.4) / 2 = 0.6
WAN 2
256 K
198 K
128 K
102 K
( 0.77 + 0.8 ) / 2 = 0.79
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