In company we have now backup link, but I have no idea which option will be best to made it working.
We have whole network set up on mikrotik RB3011UiAS-RM (LAN/WAN/VPN/ Port forwarding, etc.)
2 modems from ISP in bridge mode (right now one is connected to mikrotik and another is waiting to conneting)
Also we have second router: Tp-link: TL-ER6020
I was thinking about put Tp-link between modems from ISP and mikrotik to load balancing network and rest of network configuration should stay on mikrotik. But didn’t know if is possible to work it that way?
Any other solution to resolve this?
Can be done. The TP-Link can be configured to do either “IP based” or “Session based” load balancing. With “IP based” all connections (session) to some IP address go over the same link. Some (web-)applications require the connections to all come from one IP address if one of the sessions is used to authenticate.
Mikrotik will require some “translation” of the TP-link menu choices in firewall mangle rules and PCQ queue’s.to take over the load balancing.
My current setup is in the DUDE picture below. The hEX only running DUDE, monitoring WAN and LAN. The Draytek is the actual LAN connection, doing 2-port WAN load balancing. The TP-link RT480 is doing load balancing. The hEX is using failover based on ip routes with scope setting and nexthop detection to set up a management SSTP tunnel home. De SXT LTE devices connect to a very distant 4G distribution.
As we replace all devices by Mikrotik, the RT480’s and Draytek will be replaced by 1 Mikrotik router. Want to go to 8 WAN links. (There are 20+ AP’s on the LAN side)
Yes, your gateway (and even DNS) for the Mikrotik is the TP-link. You could use DHCP server in the TP-link to send this to the Mikrotik.
Still looking myself how to migratie the “IP based” load balancing of the TP-link to the Mikrotik. In Mikrotik this is “Per-address-pair Load Balancing” .
