Hello,
i am desperately looking for a possibility to apply a static offset separately on INBOUND and OUTBOUND to the metric of RIP routes. Cisco has that functionality using offset-lists, but i can not find a way on how to implement it on Mikrotik.
I can configure a prefix-list and set a metric, but the problem is that this metric gets overwritten with the given value, not offset with it.
My case is simple where i have multiple branches connecting to a hub. Most of the branches have dual WAN, therefore multple tunnels to the same hub. So i would like to have the possibility to select which is the preferred WAN by only editing the branch device and avoid any asymmetrical routing.
Have you considered switching to OSPF? It’s a lot less chatty, and it’s faster to converge than RIP, and you can easily define an interface’s cost in OSPF to engineer your network’s path selection.
Apart from them, the biggest design gap for using OSPF is that generally OSPF uses the receiving interface cost to calculate the metric. This means that from the Hub’s perspective the metric for the network in the branch will depend ONLY on the cost configured on the hub, and therefore can not be manipulated from the branch router’s configuration.