Policy-based routing and simple queue issues!!!

RouterOS General
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Hi,
I’m implementing Cachebox in our network, it works like a charm, but when I enable the mikrotik simple queues I only reach half the bandwidth!!
My WAN is port WAN, and my cachebox is port ether2 (CACHEBOX). My computer IP address is 170.3.5.100.

add action=mark-routing chain=prerouting comment=
“Mark TCP /80 for routing cachebox” dst-address=170.3.5.0/24
in-interface=“!ether2 v- Cachebox” new-routing-mark=cachebox protocol=tcp
src-port=80
add action=mark-routing chain=prerouting comment=
“Mark TCP /80 for routing cachebox” dst-port=80 in-interface=
“!ether2 v- Cachebox” new-routing-mark=cachebox protocol=tcp src-address=
170.3.5.0/24

And the simple queue is

/queue simple
add max-limit=8M/8M name=queue1 target=170.3.5.100/32

I also tried specifying the LAN interface and the same issue, I can only get up to 4Mbps


I was testing different settings and I found that adding two queues and selecting one for WAN port and one for the CACHEBOX it works, but it’s not useful to have two queues per IP address, cause I’m using user manager who handles the queues automatically.

2

Hi normis,
I just had a long support session with Cachebox engineers and we figured out that it’s a problem with the mikrotik router.

This packet mark and simple queue together counts the bandwidth twice!

Any suggestion?

Thanks,

3

Any suggestion?
It’s a real issue for my network, I hasn’t been able to use our cache server, and now I’m considering to come back to Cisco routers, please help me to avoid returning to the uncle Cisco.

4

Hi,
Any suggestion?

5

Hi mauricioisp,

please be aware that this is a user forum. Answers from MT staff are not guarenteed - and I suppose they don’t work on Sundays either :wink:

Have you made a support file and sent it alsong with an issue description to support@mikrotik.com?

6

Hi,
Yes I sent an email to support@mikrotik.com last week (around monday) and I didn’t receive any reply yet.

7

Hi mauricioisp,

Do you had some progress with this issue? I’m facing it too. If you have some tips please, let us know.

Thanks in advance.

8

Why not increase the queue to 16M/16M to get the desired speed until MikroTik can provide a more elegant solution? That way you wouldn’t need multiple queues?