0.7.4 Win7 not using both internet connections

[raymie67x]

Win7 machine, two gateways defined, both with own internet connection (two gateways defined on IPV4 settings for single NIC card)

0.7.1 and below worked fine and used both.

0.7.4 installed, used only 1, after several reboots, reinstalls etc still onlly using one

0.7.1 installed over top of 0.7.4, all back to normal again and both connections being used.

[shypike]

I'n going to guess here.
The "special" setting randomize_server_ip was disabled due to incompatibility with
several Usenet providers.
Enable it again and see whether that solves your issue.

[raymie67x]

To be clearer the two IP's are on my side as gateway addrsesses and not server IP's, it is just the one server I have set up (astraweb)

[shypike]

It's still worth a try.
Astraweb is one of the providers that uses multiple IPs for load balancing purposes.

BTW: SABnzbd doesn't have any explicit support for multiple ISP connections.
That it worked before is just luck.
We normally tell people to setup fixed routing for specific IP addresses.
(Assuming your Usenet provider has multiple IPs, which Astraweb should have).

[raymie67x]

ok

I have tried this.

0.71 working full speed.

Install 0.74 and it goes back to in effect half speed (using only one of the gateways from my computers NIC).

Change setting and back to full speed again.

So for clarity. this setting seems to affect the ability of sabnzdb to go from my computer, via 1 network card to my two routers (gateways) each of which has a different external IP address being different non-bonded broadband connections.

Thanks for the help.

[raymie67x]

spoke to soon, the option seems to help but it is still very intermittant, and seems to revert to one broadband connection very frequently

[shypike]

The reason that it may works is because SABnzbd sets up connections
with multiple Astraweb servers. Normally it would only use one server.
It seems that your system or your router routes the second server
to the other ISP. This is not a reliable effect, so it seems.
I find it hard to believe it works better with 0.7.1, at least reliably.
The option is normally off, because when you have one ISP, the setting
lowers the speed for some Usenet providers.

You best option is to setup status routing for two different Astraweb IPs.

[sander]

Out of curiosity: What is the output of "route print"

And can you post a few consecutive "tracert news.astraweb.com"?

I really wonder how these connections are routed / balanced over your two Internet connections. If it is based on the last binary digit of the destination, you could set two different IP addresses for astraweb in the SABnzbd config page

[raymie67x]

DOS commands andd web browesr tend to only use the one connection, only software like Vuze uses both, don't know if it is a volume of connections thing or not.

tracert only showning the one gateways on my side but differnt IP's on astraweb side on each of 3 tries

[sander]

and you don't want to share your "route print"?

[raymie67x]

It will not show anything worth sharing, it's all pretty normal, connection via my IP to BT (UK) infrastructure to astraweb

[sander]

It will not show anything worth sharing, it's all pretty normal, connection via my IP to BT (UK) infrastructure to astraweb

Well, I would expect it to show two gateways. And I wonder if they are both default gateways.

[raymie67x]

Both are default gateways as per the TCP settings in windows.

As mentioned dos commands only tend to use one of them so all traces show the first one.

Software like vuze and as I recall versions of python beyond a certain point use both (can't recall which version of python added what was needed but I think it was over a year ago, may have been longer).