Dynamic weighted bonding with WAN smoothing

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Question about how WAN smoothing interacts with dynamic weighted bonding:

I have a max transit duo with two cellular connections. I’ve been using speedfusion vpn with the policy set to ‘bonding’ and WAN smoothing set to ‘normal’. This all works fine. But what is best practice for using the ‘dynamic weighted bonding’ policy with WAN smoothing? Does it all just magically work, or does using WAN smoothing negate the benefits of dwb? I want to know if the smoothing will cause both links to carry the same traffic even if the bonding policy is favoring one or the other. Thanks for clarification.

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DWB will apply both FEC and Wan Smoothing on demand when it sees a need for it.
Typically I would disable manual settings for FEC and WS, then see how well DWB copes.
If you know you definitely need WS enabled and turn it on, I would expect DWB to only manipulate FEC in response to issues.

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Thanks, @MartinLangmaid, I’ll do some testing with DWB enabled and WS disabled.

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Thanks again for the info. Fwiw, we did a bit of testing and ended up finding that old bonding policy seems to work better. We’re doing real-time streaming over cellular and with DWB enabled the stream is very unreliable.