I’m new to RouterOS. I have a 5 port router connected to 2 modem from 2 different ISPs and a LAN.
I have eth3 and eth4 ports configured to be WAN and other ports are slave and part of the bridge (that is the LAN).
I know that i should configure PCC for load balancing and failover, fiddle around with mangle rules… but first, I’m asking myself what is happening right now, without any configuration. I see traffic in both connections… how is it working?
Sorry if this question is stupid, but I’m a noob…
Ok, thank you.
I see that all the traffic goes through eth4. eth3 has only little traffic, communications between the 2 routers, i think.
What makes the router choose eth4 instead of eth3?
If there are no administrative distance set traffic goes from port 4 because has lowest IP Subnet 192.168.120.0/24 vs 192.168.121.0/24
If you want to set which of them should work you can remove add default route to NO in IP>DHCP Client and add them manually with different distance! Lowest distance win i this case! And to make this automatic failover set check gateway ping when add default gateway!
You don’t really need to set “add default route” to no: DHCP-client (as well as PPPoE-client, L2TP-client, etc.) have “Default route distance” setting, so automatic route creation can still be used with needed distance.
If there are no administrative distance set traffic goes from port 4 because has lowest IP Subnet
So an IP address with the same subnet prefix as an other one, /24 in this example, has greater priority if the IP address number is smaller than the other’s one ? Any reference to back that up ?
