Hi Guys,
I’m curious if I can use the mikrotik to predefine hops[gateways] (im guessing using route-map) of a packet?
yes. it’s what routing is for. what exactly do you want to achieve?
sorry ill explain it a little better, i need to define all the hops that a packet will take e.g.
PC → Mikrotik router → External → routerA → routerB → PC2
i can ping both external routers and they will pass my packets (but i cannot configure them), they just go threw a third hop which i dont want.
you can’t decide what those other routers will do. you have to configure their routing too.
sure thing i was hoping to execute whats known as “source-routing” , thanx for the replies anyway i might have to write c code to do tit.
can’t even imagine what you are trying to do…
if you need ‘source-routing’ - then create one more routing table in IP->Routing, and in Mangle mark all needed packets with Routing Mark - then you will be able to do ‘source routing’, ‘port routing’, ‘service routing’, etc.