step by step tutorial on wan load balancing

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1

hello,
iam new with mikrotik and i need to understand the mikrotik concept by showing me step by step wan load balancing as well as failover with explanation,

thanks

2

I’ve followed these ones to play with loadbalancing :

http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/US12/steve.pdf

http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/US12/tomas.pdf

There are a lot of docs on the net…

3

this looks like what i am looking for…many thanks…

4

Many thanks..this looks like a great help…if i have any questions on this document, is it possible to ask you ?..thanks

5

somehow i have difficulty understanding this lines under the tomas.pdf

addchain=prerouting connection-mark=WAN1->LANssrc-address-list=LAN action=mark-routing new-routing-mark=ISP1_Route
addchain=prerouting connection-mark=WAN2->LANssrc-address-list=LAN action=mark-routing new-routing-mark=ISP2_Route

=it is talking about the wan2lan but why it uses src address ans LAN

6

Glad to know you’ve found it helpful.

I’m learning too so probably I’m not the right person to ask for detailed explanations, however , those lines are used to manage a connection coming from WAN to be answered out on the same WAN

First the incoming connection from a specific WAN with no marks is marked as WANx->LANs

Then the packets flowing out from LAN (address list=LAN) , with WANx->LANs mark are further “routing-marked” as ISPx_Route to be associated to relative ISP route into the IP routing table: look at previous page with :

add gateway=1.1.1.1 routing-mark=ISP1_Route distance=1

I hope this is clear (and not a mistake…)

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the way it was, confuses me…why dont we just use the established option.