Routing via Best (fastest) path?

RouterOS General
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I was researching “load balancing” but that didn’t seem to send me in the direction I was hoping.

I have two fairly fast WAN paths via two different vendors. I’m thinking that I’d like to set my 2011UiAS up so that LAN connections occur via the WAN interface that provides the fastest route to the foreign host.

Is this possible? Any pointers to implement this plan?

Thanks in advance.

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Which “fast” do you mean?
Fewest hops?
Lowest latency?
Highest bandwidth?

I’m afraid this can only be done with routing exchange with your ISPs - i.e. BGP.
And for this, your 2011 is probably not the right device.

-Chris

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Thank you for your response.

I was thinking lowest latency, which should also account for fewest hops by extrapolation.

Both connections are via 1GbE, but I find that the vendors have different paths to the far-end host and, thus, have different speed characteristics depending on the path taken. I’m considering the CCR1036-8G-2S+ in the near future and wonder if this would provide a better solution to this? Long-range the circuits will be OC-192, but that’s another year away but I’m trying to plan in that direction.

Thanks for the assistance and helping me think through this problem/solution.

Bob