Routing marks

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’m using a routerboard 1200 and attempting to replace two rv042s that control access to three wan connections. Two of the connections are for general internet traffic, one’s primary, the other is failover. That seems easy enough to do. The third wan connection is for my server traffic. Servers and other hosts are all on the same subnet. Currently, I direct servers to a different gateway (general traffic to x.1 and servers to x.2).
It looks like I can use policy based routing to mark my servers based on some criteria. I don’t want to have to program the IP of every server host into my router and direct them to the alternate route. I think I can program two ports on the routerboard with an x.1 and x.2 address and apply a routing mark to the ones going through x.2.

And there’s my problem. I’m following tutorials that show me how to use mangle to apply a routing mark, but when I go to actions, all I see are packet marks and connection marks.

So, two questions:

  1. Am I doing this right?
  2. Why can’t I select routing mark?
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Because it is called “mark routing” NOT “routing mark”. But yes it sounds like you are on the right path.

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It may also be useful for you to look at VRFs under /IP Routing. By placing specific interfaces into a VRF the system will automatically mark traffic on those interfaces with the VRF routing mark and connected routing table entries for the relevant IPs will be marked with the appropriate routing mark. You can intermix use of VRF and mangle to achieve the goal with fewest entries - VRF uses routing marks.

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Thanks, folks. I had done a firmware update yesterday, I went in again today and the option was there.
It’s good to hear that I’m on the right path. I’ll start reading into VRF today, thanks!