Hi,
Is it possible to configure two RB1000s in a cluster setup either active/active or active/passive ? So that I can have both running at all times and if a power failure or some cable is disconnected on one of the router the other one will take over automatically ?
It will be used with a simple firewall with a number of ips terminated on vlans. The plan is to use it as a router in my computer rack.
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Rasmus Fauske
Yes in a way you can…
ex. setup:
Unit: main IP: config ip:
gw1: 192.168.1.1 (and 192.168.1.3)
gw2: 192.168.1.2 (and 192.168.1.4)
You need to make a script that pings your main router (on the config ip) and when it fails it will set it’s IP to the main IP…
And when it can ping the config ip again it will go back to it’s own main ip.
But Mikrotik really needs to make some “fail over” / “load balance” feature to RouterOS.
use vrrp
From the VRRP docs:
VRRP does not currently work on VLAN interfaces, as it is impossible to have the MAC address of a VLAN interface different from the MAC address of the physical interface it is put on.
So I guess that it will not work since I need 20-30 vlan interfaces
Does anyone know if there is planed some form of failover (preferebly with config sync) to the RouterOS platform ?
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RF
ok, sorry, i missed that. then vrrp is really not the way to go, perhaps some scripting might work as needed but it won’t be as fast as vrrp.
you can add VRRP interface on interface not on vlans and when VRRP switch over happens - execute scripts, that will configre what you need, as result you will get 2 routers with vlans, that will work with VRRP