… in vague terms and you continue to do so. Don’t be affraid to get technical, we can handle it. We do not want “IP1” and “IP2”, we want addresses, gateways, netmasks, i.e. description like this:
ISP1: network 1.1.1.0/28, default gw 1.1.1.14 (ISP’s router), my router should get 1.1.1.1 and ESXi guests 1.1.1.2-13
ISP2: network 2.2.2.16/29, default gw 2.2.2.17 (ISP’s router), my router should get 2.2.2.18 and ESXi guests 2.2.2.19-22
Don’t want to share your real addresses with whole world? No problem, make them anonymous. But don’t invent something completely fake, just take your real addresses and give us x.x.1.1 instead of 1.1.1.1 and y.y.2.1 intead of 2.2.2.1.
If there are some limitations, like you not being able to touch ESXi settings, fine, we can accept that and think about them as blackboxes instead of configurable ESXis. But you in turn need to accept that it might make simple and straightforward solution impossible and some workaround might be needed instead. And it might not be exactly what you had in mind.
Also, are you sure that you did not forget anything? You were attempting to do something with NAT. So you don’t need that anymore, or did you forget to mention it now? Every little detail is important. Future plans are important.
You did not mention what kind of addresses and routing you get from your two ISPs.
Do you have a subnet from each, where they route everything via one address? (your MikroTik address)
Again, please give actual information with subnet masks for your addresses.
Also specifity how the ESXi systems are confgured. Do they have a subnet and a fixed router, if so at
what address?
As far as I understand it from your limited info I see no reason to switch or bridge, but it can be routed.
But maybe you are withholding crucial details.
What you really want is to bridge the isp’s net together? From what i can se from what you write - you should just bridge all ethernet togetner, and separate by ip.
The problem here is your solution. I would recomand that you use vlan in your vmware servers.
Make vlan 11 and 12 to esx host 1
Make vlan 13 and 14 to esx host 2
put vlan config your vmware server
then bridge vlan 11 and 13 to isp 1 interface and vlan 13 and 14 to isp2 interface. You will then be able to have both isps traffic to both esxi hosts
It is completely unclear what he really wants, and even worse: he does not want to explain it either.
He mainly wants to whine. He opens tons of questions and feature requests for implementing a
completely obscure network design that should just be re-done or at least documented better.
Unfortunately, if someone doesn’t understand something or can’t do something, they tend to reject it.
This is the result of education.
It is a simple claim by the questioner:
He wants to connect two (or more) bridges.
Just as you would do with the physical ports of a Mikrotik router from the outside, using a patch cable.
We want to skip these cables and ports.