It was great helpful, I'm Brazilian and I didn't find any explanation on the sites in Brazil, thanks for you help me. Keep going. I'm sorry my English is not good.
Thanks for the great video, not only explaining failover routing in RouterOS, but also highlighting the change in getting recursive routing to work properly in ROS7! 👍 I also hadn't previously noticed the new check-gateway options... definitely going to have to dig into those.
Really great video, I followed Mikrotik's official guide, yet I couldn't configure failover properly. This time I did it in less than 20 minutes. Thank you a lot!
Thank you! Works great i found your video and you save me! now the office is running on two diferent fiber connections and having a starlinkas backup! that should give me peace of mind for ma upcoming vacations! again Thank you! you have a new subscriber!
Thanks, like. It works great in RouterOS 7.5, though that screen refresh bug is still there. Tip: you can use Netwatch to clear existing connections when the routes swap is done, to speed up the transition.
11:37 This setup assumes that you know your gateways. That is often not the case. You just want to check your 2 WAN-connections without having to set (changing) gateways.
Hi Werner, you have a great point! If we are using DHCP on the WAN, we can use a script to update the ISP's GW if that changes. It can be something like the following: Let's assume we have the ISP-1 connected on ether1: :local newgw [ip dhcp-client get [find interface="ether1"] gateway]; :local routegw [/ip route get [find comment="isp1"] gateway ]; :if ($newgw != $routegw) do={ /ip route set [find comment="isp1"] gateway=$newgw; } We would only need to add a comment ( "isp1") to the route with scope =10 and create a task in the system/schedules and execute that task every X amount of time. I hope this is going to help! Thank you
Hi! Thanks! I was only able to do Recursive failover in this new version 7 with your explanation. I updated my equipment to 7.5 and I was not able to do it. In version 6.49 the default route I kept with the same scope as the monitoring route Ex:10 and it worked, now in the new version the scope should be bigger. Thanks!
Hello! That depends on your actual configuration. I have more videos about routing, switching, and security. You can pick the technologies/protocols you require in your setup.
Great guide! Thanks! It works great for me on ROS 7.8. What if I don't have a standard GW for one of the ISPs? What should I add to the route? For example, I have Starlink on pass-through mode and I set a DHCP client for the ISP1 interface. How can I set the gateway from the DHCP client as a default route? Thanks in advance!
sir in the last part of the video, in firewall rule you drop the ether2 which is the ISP2 to test then the ISP1 should enable to connect.. but in you the ISP2 will enable even you drop the connection.. correct me if i'm wrong sir.
excellent. works like a charm. How to deal in situation if IP of Wan interface is dynamic and potentially my provider has dynamic gateway IP, so it can change?
Hi , Thank you for the video,, If there is 3rd link then what will the scope and target scope, Also if we for each WAN link there are different lan IP pool , then how will that recursive?
Hello , And always following You , Great explanations. Have a question Whats the best way to load balance two PPPOE same gateway and use BGP Need to be able to stream iptv on my tv
Hi, Thanks you. I have a question, in the test part, when you drop all forward to ETH2, you off conexion from ISP-1 and active for failover ISP-2, but in the image ETH1 is for ISP-1 Conexion WAN and ETH2 is for ISP-2 conexion..is a mistake image ?
@@TheNetworkTrip thank you. btw, I have a problem pinging my second router (priority 2) , I get "Request timed out." but loadbalancing works well. Just I can't ping or open my second router web.
Hi i love what you do. how do i reach the router using winbox from either Ip addresses, from outside the LAN supposing both isps assigned public Ip addresses.
How bout setting up failover based on latency sir? Lets say my isp has high latency/ping or is slow,for example my isp1 has 50ms or higher ping and need to route traffic to my isp2. Thank you very much sir
Hi Michael, that would be cool, we can use scripting or the API to gather stats, and then execute a script to switch the order of preference. I will try to create something and share it soon.
Great video sir. if I intend to combine 3 isps, for example three 500mb connections combined for 1.5gb availability on the router, can I assign distance of 1 to all the connections? if 1 connection breaks down, 2 will still work to provide 1gb availability for the system. I intend to use the recursive routing provided above but use a distance of 1 for all providers. will this work sir? there are pcc settings in the mangle to handle the traffic.
Mr.Wilmer From your experiense in Mikrotik can we merge two internet speed Connection...? i mean if i have ether-1=8M ether-2=8M can i merge both of them so i get 16 M..?
Hello Wilmer, this is a pretty great training. can we add a second set of addresses to be monitored in case the IP we're using becomes unreachable before we switch to the second ISP interface ?. Many thanks
but I don't why, it doesn't work for my network for some reasons. The secondary route is showing in blue in the route list window and then in red after 30sec. status messages are : enabled, invalid, unreachable, static, HW offload. The wierd thing is that the traffic doesn't reroute through the main connection and I have to disable the 2nd WAN port to make it work again. Happy to get some support if all possible. Thanks
I found what the issue is.. my backup connection is connected to a Mikrotik 5G router (Chateau). When the routeur cannot join the Internet itself (not the IP we're using for the recursive test), the configuration doesn't work. If someone has a plan for the plan :)
Thank you so much Sir! we saddly have poor explanations across the web about OS7. Can you help me with another? how to clean the Conntrack when Gateway changes? I do have VOIP services and, every time the gateway changes, I have some problems with authentication, so I have to clean the conntrack to force new authentication at provider. Thank You SO MUCH!
Hi sir! Im studying this vid,. in this setup is there anything to config in mangle rules? I just want to implement this setup with my rb5009 running dual isp with pppoe/hs same interface can u give m idea how can i config this one... tia sir
Hi Eichra, All the process will look the same, the only difference will be that instead of using and IP on the gateway value, you can specify the pppoe-interface-name. Let's say your ISP has the interface pppoe-isp1, then, your route will have gateway=pppoe-isp1
sir hotspot user connected but can't able to access internet when i go to hotspot host here i remove user mac address then again user can access internet soloution please?
I followed your scope/target scope settings but does not seem to reach the gateway. The immediate gateway status is just unknown. Does the scope and target scope change if I have more than 2 WANs?
can we use Recursive Routing + Failover with load balancing setting, if yes then how setup mangle rule for load balancing with recursive routing. can we use both load balance + recursive routing. Plz help me or send me full script, Thanks & Regards
Hi, thanks for your comment We can use failover & recursive routing in combination with load balancing (PCC, PBR). I will create a video with PCC + Failover + Recursive Routing soon!
