hEX Dual WAN failover in front of Orbi RBR760 primary without double-NAT

[jaclaz]

It seems to me like you could apply this simple method:

Simpler Failover for two Gateways I found working

Hey, like many others I was wondering how to accomplish a simple failover with two Gateways (here: DSL and LTE) with MikroTik involved. Searching the Internet and this Board, all I was able to find was “Recursive Routes” with checking e.g. 8.8.8.8 as a “Gateway”. This was not working at first and I wasn’t happy with recursion in the routes so I managed to get the task done with another way I was not able to find anywhere while searching, so I’m sharing this: Done this on RB5009 yesterday - i…

further simplified:

Simpler Failover for two Gateways I found working

Only to keep things as together as possible I just “sold” this Filo’s approach to a new user, with a few changes. I got rid of the separate routing table and of the mangle by adding a “narrow” /32 route to the “canary” ip address in “main” table. And I didn’t use the “comment” as selector in the Netwatch script (this is a pet peeve of mine, comments may be changed accidentally six months or a year later, the setup would stop working and finding out what happened would be more difficult). Be…