Hello, guys. How are you?
I am part of the board of my condo and the IT guys are saying that you can use a Hex Lite (pictures attached) for multi wan failover. Is that true? Is there a place in the manual or docs stating that this is a possibility?
I understand the basics of network and, in my opinion, ports that are labeled as “wan/lan” can do that, which is not the case here. Am I right?
The front-panel labels give the default configuration of those ports’ Internet/LAN roles. Nothing in RouterOS prevents reassigning those ports to different roles.
Contrast the “PoE in” label, which informs you of a hardware limitation. You can’t move that role at will; there is no mere configuration change that can override that.
I tell you this not merely for your education but because you might have need of PoE powering here, as with a PoE core switch, requiring that neither of your dual WAN ports be on ether1. I put the single Internet connection of my hAP ax³ on ether5 for this reason.
You are nearly correct.
The ports are labelled as a helper for out of the box configuration however a 'Tik is a different beast to most routers, you could configure it to have 4 WAN and 1 LAN if needed.
The docs won’t outright state this as there technically isn’t a WAN or LAN setting within RouterOS, you just configure an interface with what you want it to have.
Possible yes, a good idea probably not.
Why?
It only has 10/100 ports.
So it can at best serve your clients with 100mbps and of course can only handle 100Mpbs coming from any ISP.
We have no information as to the WAN connections available or to the expectation and uses of clients.
Thanks a lot, guys. For the price range of this equipment I didn’t imagine that it would do such things. Thanks.