Is it possible to have the 2 five port banks of switches on an RB1100AHx2 emulate 2 masquerading nat routers via port 11 and port 12.
I have tried it out both banks return the same IP when one does Whats My IP in Google, the LAN’s are on different local ranges as are the IP’s on WAN ports 11 and 12.
Sure it is, google for “mikrotik policy routing”.
In short, you need to add a default (dst-address=0.0.0.0/0) route via WAN2 with a routing-mark parameter like via-wan2, and you need to attach the same routing mark to packets sent from the corresponding local subnet. In its simplest form, it would be
/ip route rule
add src-address=the.local.sub.net/mask action=lookup-only-in-table table=via-wan2
If you need to make routing between two local subnets possible, you have to place another routing rule before the above one to prevent local traffic from getting marked, so the complete setup would be
/ip route rule
add src-address=the.local.sub.net/mask dst-address=the.other.local.subnet/mask action=lookup-only-in-table table=main
add src-address=the.local.sub.net/mask action=lookup-only-in-table table=via-wan2
How exactly the added route will look like depends on the WAN type (a point-to-point one like PPPoE or an Ethernet one); only if both your WAN interfaces are connected to the same subnet, some other measures may be necessary.
I will give that a try, each router would have their own static IP, issued to the PPPoE connections by my radius server when their WAN ports 11 and 12 are connected to my main router which is a RB1100AHx4, they both have different LAN subnets one is 192.168.0.0/24 and the other is 192.168.1.0/24 , what happens at the moment is that both routers are showing the same IP route and the IP is the same when I do “What is my IP”
The Wan ports 11 and 12 are connected to the same switch and are on the same public subnet but different static IP’s