Hello i purchased a RB493AH router and i am attempting to load balance 3 WAN’s (as for now since im missing 1 ethernet cable) lets say 4 WAN’s then so that i can just simply plug in the cable later.
ISP (Bredbandsbolaget in sweden) gives out a switch, That switch gives me 5 IP’s and 100 mbit/s down divided to thoose 5 IP’s but 10 mbit/s out on each IP.
So what i want to do is to load balance thoose.
Ive read in forums watched videos and read Wikki. I just cant get it to work eventually eaven the ISP shut me off beacouse i requested mac adresses constantly except i had 1 so it auto shut off incase of a “hack” so im desperate for some proper help to guide me thru this thing.
I do not want failover. Also all the interfaces using same gateway on ISP (i think, best would be to balance on interface name if possible)
This is what i have done:
plugged in cables from switch to router on ether1, ether3, ether4 for internet but we are configuring for 1 more so say ether 5 aswell thats all the individual 5 IP’s from switch. and i named them WAN 1/ether1, WAN 2/ether3, WAN 3/ether4, WAN 4/ether5
And the cable to my computer wich should have the internet is called LAN/ether2
As it shows in this picture:
Now im really stuck. Also please note that i never ever used linux so all this terminal stuff is confusing to me specially when i dont understand what i am doing. So id appreciate any further step to be explained with the GUI if possible i take any help i can get ofc.
My biggest issue is understanding how to make my computer get an IP when plugging in the cable beacouse i cant eaven do that. but thats not only what i wanna do obviously.
Thanks for helping i have done exactly as in that text. Except for adding 1 nr higher in the ip and to next WAN port since that example shows for 2 connections and i want to do it for 4 connections.
The example doesnt say if my computer wich is LAN or Local by the example u provided: Should have static IP beacoue when i disable and enable the network on my laptop wich is the LAN it does not get an IP it just says Unindentifyed network.
here are some pictures on what i have done:
Picture contains: Interface, Route List/Routes, IP/Firewall/NAT
Picture contains: Route List/Nexthops, IP/Firewall/Mangle
Picture contains: The guide i followed
Okey, Lets take a closer look at what the hell i did
Going over the IP/Firewall/NAT
← Here u can see on pic i used Masquerade in action and dublicated them for each WAN port as in example.
Going over the IP/Firewall/Mangle
Showing Connections:
Adress List:
can u explain that a little further please.. CLI ? only way im able to connect is with winbox but i guess i could just enter that stuff with the built in TERMINAL … .. and why cant i add it the GUI way ? .. also shouldent i do %WAN 1 as it says in my pic or does it need to be for the original ethernet ports name like ether1 also u show example of 2 not more so the third one also outing-mark=other ?
baby steps please .. as said previously im not very good with this.
Also as i said from start i wanted network load balance without fail over RR if possible .. 4 WAN and 1 LAN .. i do however have 1 additional computer and 1 ps3 .. so best would be if thoose 4 WAN’s just shared the load as load balanced and rest ports are totally open like DMZ or something and that they act as DHCP if i plug my PS3 in i want it to get IP on its own or my LAN (computer) .. if that clears things up.. i hope someone can help me beacouse my router just laying here and i fiddled with it so much and i aint getting no where close to a result.
quite frustrating since it cost me alot of money compared to a “regular” router heh.
also the link u provided doesnt work for me i think beacouse my 5 IP’s arent in same range at all they totally diffrent only thing they got in common is same gateway.
hope i cleared up some stuff and that i can get some help that leads this router to working for me
CLI stands for Command Line Interface. GUI stands for Graphical User Interface.
In order to access the CLI you need to SSH, Telnet, or user the terminal. Almost all examples and Wiki articles are going be giving you steps and examples in CLI format, so you’ll want to at least get used to it and familiar with that. The reason why it needs to be done via CLI is because that’s a current restriction to that method. I’m just making you aware of that.
As with all examples you need to adjust them to fit your needs and configuration. A “normal” router doesn’t give you nearly as many options, functionality, or stability that a MikroTik does. But in exchange for all of that you need to learn the device and cannot rely on simple one click configuration options.
