Good morning,
I bought my first mikrotik routerboard Hex Lite, and I’m trying configure that router to work with failover, Receiving one dedicated link and the other an PPPoE link where.
Have some way to configure throgh the GUI.
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Simplest way is to set Default Route distance to 1 for main and 2 for second. This way won’t check if the link actually has internet.
I wish it was so easy. Having gateway accessible does not say anything about having an access to internet. But there are so many tutorials about failover that it does not have sense to write the same again and again…
I would say just to give you some direction.
Maybe a script that pings 8.8.8.8 and when there is more then 10 timeouts let say the script changes your default gateway.
Then a secondary script to check when the first ISP goes up again.