Disconnected WAN port causes Failover to not work

[jaclaz]

Another way is to add a “blackhole” route for those /32 addresses and set it to a higher distance. When the port is down, the blackhole route takes over and it still works.

For reference, “Workaround 1” here:

Advanced Routing Failover without Scripting

_A comment about PPP uplinks (like PPPoE): https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?p=814682#p814682_ - important in RouterOS before v7 Introduction Let us suppose that we have several WAN links, and we want to monitor, whether the Internet is accessible through each of them. The problem can be everywhere. If your VPN cannot connect - then there’s no problem, your default route with gateway=that-vpn-connection will be inactive. If your ADSL modem is down - then check-gateway=ping is on stage…