VRRP / clustering capability

RouterOS General
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I’ve had a cloudcore router installed for a few months and I’d like to backup it up with a redundant unit. I purchased another cloudcore router and realized that VRRP isn’t want I thought it was.

This is more for the Mikrotik folks but is there a point on the road map where we will have an active/passive failover and sync capability? This would move your product into a more enterprise market because like many enterprises, I’m not comfortable with placing a product that doesn’t have a clustering feature in a mission critical role.

One of the companies I do work for currently processes over $100M/yr in credit card transactions and all that data routes through a single mikrotik. The network is fairly complex with over 80 VLANs and multiple IPSec VPN connections to remote locations. This makes VRRP very difficult to maintain and configure along with many opportunities for human error.

I currently have a warm standby with configs saved but again, that gives more opportunity for human error and a lengthy outage while switching between units. This isn’t an ideal solution so I may have to move this company to a pair of Cisco ASA units.

I totally understand that 99.999% of your customers will not NEED this (I’ve been using Mikrotik for over 5 years and this is the first requirement for this feature) but without this clustering capability, it places the CloudCore product line into the “VERY Powerful Small Business Router” category instead of an “Enterprise Class Router” category.

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I have not yet seen a router with active /passive failover capability and that includes cisco up to crs. Routers always do hsrp/vrrp. You are thinking about firewalls.

ARBEIT ANGST KONSUMTERROR

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That statement is somewhat true. Cisco 6800 series is a router that has the capability of dual processor failover. It also as a firewall module so it can become an ASA type product. Regardless of that - you are saying you’ve never used the routerboard as an edge firewall? I’m pretty sure most of us use it not just as a router but as a firewall too.

Anyhow, my original post was more of a rant than anything else. I’m not really trying to start an argument and I apologize if it looks that way. The routerboard is a great product and has saved myself and my clients thousands of dollars.