Hello, i have simple question but actually the answer is so important for me.
Actually i implemented Advance Failover without scripting in RB951-2nD.
(https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Advanced_Routing_Failover_without_Scripting)
The failover works great in mikrotik but about the clients that connected to lan interface of mikrotik unfortunately doesn’t answer well. Let me explain what I did.
2 ISP are there that connect to mikrotik and one Local port for Lan:
Wan1: 192.168.2.24/24
Wan2: 192.168.1.2/24
Lan: 192.168.0.0/24
At the time of one Wan failure occure, mikrotik hopefully detect which link is failed thanks torecursive route.
the clients also will be able to continue their work if “refresh the page”.
But if clients checked an address (like 4.2.2.4 or etc) using “ping”, while link failure occurre the reply is “request time out” and will not switch automatically.
However if you just interrupt the session and ping again it replies!
But this is interesting that “mikrotik” itself does not continue the “request time out” and after about 5 try (also sometimes it does without any" request time out") and switched back to another Wan link well.
I don’t know why this occurs and really think that it can not be true hot fail-over for clients because doesn’t maintain the client’s connection. This is useful for just new connections. But for others, user action seems to be required.
I would appreciate if anyone can help to solve just this problem and the clients ping request switch back automatically the same as routerboard itself.
Thanks in advance.
Ali