hi,
i have purchased few months ago a RB4011iGS + RM . it is 10 port gigabit switch like router. i have watched some youtube videos and successfully configured 3 dhcp clients on port 1, port 2 ,port 3; with per connection classifier rules in firewall. the problem : as soon as i created the first dhcp client (with cable connected to port i.e. live), i lost connectivity to the router. i.e. winbox stopped connecting to the router ip. the router also doesnt show up in ‘neighbors’ of winbox. i disconnected all three cables and configured remining 2 dhcp clients. after connecting even ONE of the isp cables (from their fiber ont router) i loose winbox connectivity. if i remove all the three isp lan cables from the ethernet ports THEN instantly i get connectivty back.
please can anyone tell what is happening. it seems i should have gone for the much costlier unifi dream machine thingies. but they were way too costly.
i just want to do speed aggregation with the 3 isps. that is only reason i bought this mikrotik!!! i am home user.
Keep in mind you wont get aggregation, just more bandwidth to share amongst users and redundancy maybe if your ISPs are different.
Dont like that video, his WAN2 is not working, mangling for PCC is very easy if your WAN ISPs are fixed/static IPs, ( or pppoe assigned IPs), otherwise you need complex scripts to make it work.
yeah. i saw that official mikrotik video just before seeing ur post. followed that one and now everything is OK!!! BTW what do u mean by “Keep in mind you wont get aggregation,…” . my download speed from single pc from single gdrive and all has become the total of all isps combined. now getting 600mbps download speed on single files (afcourse via accelerators like IDM). thus i am getting aggregation. right ??
Nope the best you can hope for, on any one sessions, is the maximum throughput of the ISP the user is connected to.
The total amount of bandwidth is greater to share.
So instead of 50 users sharing 500Mbps of throughput, they are sharing 1Gbps throughput, so each user has more opportunity for a bigger part of the pipe than before.
@anav: You missed the “afcourse via accelerators like IDM”, i.e. instead of downloading one file using one connection from beginning to end, there are multiple connections, each downloading different part of that file. It may not work with everything, but when it does, you can get maximum speed from all ISPs combined.
Not familiar with other tools someone might use, I am strictly referring to the performance provided by the MT config.
If there is aggregation wrt to a single session, some other device/software is performing this not the MT.
hi everyone. the pcc is working fine. now i want todo 2 seperate networks with the 3 isps. i.e. isp1 and isp3 (ether1, ether3) in one network with access to ONLY ports 4,5,9,10 . AAND other isp2 (ether2) in another network with access to ONLY ports 6,7,8. i successfully configured this and the 2 networks were working fine BUT i wanted to forward a port from isp2 to its second network, this did NOT work. can anyone help me?
what command or button should i press to give u guys a log or such of my settings, so u know my current setup/settings.
i saw in firewall that traffic on desired port was reaching the router thru isp2(ether2) BUT not getting forwarded to the required lan address.
now i have deleted the pcc config and just kept 3 wan dhcp clients with ‘1’ as distance on all. thus it is ecmp. i did this to simplify the settings.
how can i show u my setup, so u can help me out.
hi. as illamajaja showed me, i have attached the rsc file here. i went back to doing PCC as ecmp was not giving me combined speeds of the isps. so now only isp1 and isp3 are pcc. isp2 is on its own (i.e. accepting traffic from bridge2 directly). i created 2 bridges as i needed to attach dhcp server 2 to the ports 6,7,8. as attaching individual ports to the ip address list is not possible (in IP > Addresses window). tingise.rsc (6.51 KB)
i want to seperate the wans into 2 groups. i dont want dhcp server 2 to send traffic to isp1,isp3. i want no communication between the 2 networks. isp2 alongwith pports 6,7,8 should function as a seperate router!! no communication between the 2 groups!!! how can i have pcc from same dhcp server traffic to all 3 wan (i dont want this)!!!
the speeds of wans r → wan1(ether1) 200mbps down/up , wan2 (ether2) 300mbps down/up, wan3 (ether3) 200mbps down/up.
right now , the 2 networks are working as expected , BUT port forwarding from isp2 to its own group (ether6,7,8) is NOT working. i can see the traffic (bytes) in the firewall but it is not going through.
Do not tie ISPs to ports, so inflexible an approach and is not based on requirements but not understanding how networking actually works.
ONLY need to
a. identify user/device or groups of users/devices
b. what traffic flow they required
What I hear is that you have 3 wan connections that you could use to server all LAN users.
Separately you have some layers of further requirements
use WAN2 for external users to reach LAN servers
Its one router so there is no separate router concept. One uses the functionality and tools available on the router to create isolation in traffic. All doable.
Trying to use port based control access to WANs, is really old thinking.
You have to decide if you want each port to get an IP address and not be on a bridge but all separate thats fine.
However most use a single bridge, assigne vlans to subnets and then assign the vlans to the ports as required.
This allows for trunk ports where one can send many vlans down one port, to a smart access port or switch for further distribution in another location/room.
Your ip pools make little sense.
Lacking firewall rules…
/ip routes make no sense
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The solution below moves everything to one bridge and four vlans, subnets. You may only elect to use two of them for example.
Its a rational approach that may not be quite correct at the start but will allow you to meet your requirements as they become clearer.
PCC for three wans, wan2 gets two hits for every one hit of the other being slightly larger in capacity.
So we need mangle for PCC, we need mangle for incoming traffic to server via WAN2,
We need to ensure that server traffic is not captured by PCC traffic as its separate.
hi anav, have now done VLANs. saw a couple videos and also ur comment. port is STILL not getting forwarded. BTW i have kept PCC seperate for the 2 networks/vlans. i.e. vlan1 has pcc but vlan2 does not have it.
hi,
have uploaded my latest config. btw, what i am doing is: testing a openvpn and wireguard server. i.e. the server is in vlan 2 and i am connecting to it from a client which is in vlan 1. thus i cannot have the vlan1 to use isp2 or vlan2 to use isp1,isp3. the vlans should have their seperate isps. the forwarded traffic must go ‘out’ from vlan2 to isp2 and come “in” thru the other isps on a vlan1 pc. junkied.rsc (7.29 KB)