Hello
I have the followed two ISPs:
Starlink that gives me:
1.1) one static IPv6
1.2) one dynamic IPv4 through CGN
ISP that gives me static IPv4
Which is the best senario to use them for load balancing or failover?
My router is RB5009 and I want to use VPN.
Thanks in advance
pe1chl
December 25, 2025, 11:42am
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The usual approach with recursive routing, of course only for IPv4.
Hello pe1chl
thanks for your reply.
If I get it, what you say is to keep using the CGN from the first ISP and implent the failover with the second ISP through recursive routing.
Correct?
Do you have a clue of how to implement the VPN to be sure that I avoid tunnel collapses or other issues?
Thanks
jaclaz
December 27, 2025, 9:49am
4
In case of need, a simple way to make (IPv4) recursive routes:
Recursive routing and failover setup making use of it is one among the many commonly needed features of a router that is - BTW like most useful things possible in RouterOS - either mis-documented or documented in such a complex and convolute way that bears of little brain like myself simply cannot grasp in their entirety.
By applying a (rest assured moderate) amount of torture to knowledgeable member CGGXANNX (whom I want to thank for the patience and the will to discuss and explain the matter)…
Alternatively, the simplest way using netwatch:
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…