I am new to Mikrotik. I have a RB1100AK running ver 6.6. I have connection to the internet through 1 ISP connection no problem. I have a 2nd slower ISP connection that I want to use for IPSEC tunnel (lan to lan and PPTP) use only. So far I cannot even get the 2nd ISP static IP address to respond which I have connected to port 11. I am not command line savvy so I only use the winbox utility.
here is a brief scenario
External ISP Static IP Connection 24.25.13.x network
Internal Production networks - 10.255.255.x, 10.255.114.x
2nd ISP connection Station - 66.187.166.x
I can get tunnels to connect with the primary ISP IP address. I cannot even ping the 2nd ISP static address which is configured on port 11.
The problem is even if the packets are coming in through your 2nd ISP port, the response packets are leaving you router towards the default gateway (which is likely to be your primary ISP). One possible solution is the following:
/ip route
add gateway=<your_2nd_isp_gw> routing-mark=to_2nd_isp
/ip route rule
add src-address=<your_2nd_isp_ip_address> table=to_2nd_ispThis will define another routing table named “to_2nd_isp” and use it for any outgoing packets that have your 2nd ISP’s IP address as a source address.
This recommendation worked somewhat. I was able to estable 3 connections to remote Mikrotik routers, Ping the local IP address. then with no changes only one of them works now. I am running v6.6 on my RB1100AHx2.
I check the remote peers screen and this is what I see
The only network I can ping local address on is 173.9.183.173
Also, all of the remotes are set to connect to 66.187.166.35 (2nd ISP) not 24.142.230.10 (primary ISP). Not sure how it is establishing the connection through the primary static IP address when both ends are configured for 66.187.166.35. The connections throguh 24.142.230.10 keep dropping and reestablishing.
I am very frustrated. I had it working fully then it stopped working for all remotes except one.