option to add route mark to PPP interfaces

RouterOS General
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I would like to see an option to add a route mark for PPP interfaces so that each one could be routed on a different routing table.

useful occasions for this:

anytime there are 2 WAN interfaces/2 gateways and a PPTP, SSTP, L2TP, etc PPP interface needs to be routed out a specific gateway

when there are 2 PPP interfaces and it is desirable to have one interface use gateway1 and the other use gateway2.

2

Yes this is an important missing function.

It would avoid to use two differents destination addresses to be able to differentiate routing.

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++1

4

I use mangle rules to set routing marks on PPTP interfaces so that different PPTP clients are routed using different tables. I guess people are trying to do something different from that but I’m not clear what?

It might help to get the feature addressed if somebody can clarify?

5

I’m not sure if you found some magic way to handle this or if you aren’t seeing our need.

basically this:
Scenario1:
I have 2 WAN interfaces. I want to connect via an SSTP tunnel from WAN1 to remote site A and from WAN2 to remote site B. I can’t actually tell the SSTP tunnel to use WAN1 or WAN2 as the source for the tunnel, instead I have to create a route to site B via WAN2’s gateway. This is possible but a hassle.

Scenario2:
I have 2 WAN interfaces. I want to connect via an SSTP tunnel from WAN1 to remote site A and from WAN2 to remote site A also. Now I cannot cheat by setting a route to site B through WAN2’s subnet. I cannot have these tunnels connect this way. This is a useful scenario when a site can only get 1.5Mb DSL lines and I want to bond two or three of these interfaces to the remote site. The remote site, the hub of my VPN cloud, has a 100Mb FDX connection.