Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:05 am
OK Normis. I checked the new location before, it was not there (it's in the Forum, but that's not an official documentation spot for me)
This explaination (collaboration of your users and presentation at MUM) is a highly non trivial, non intuitive, but an excellent working way of having failover without the need for scripting.
Mostly in the forum users ask: how does this work? The usage of recursive routie calculation and well chosen "scope" settings is not easy to understand.
Documentation of this is crucial not to loose the magic combination. Mikrotik docs is too often about the possible parameter values (reference manual) , not how things work or should/could be used (operation guide). It's improving though.
I very frequently use that solution, to choose the right upstream router that has internet access, but it is only a variation because it's only for outgoing connections, and I don't even need that "mark route" for ingress requests or for load balancing. Now it is difficumt to point other users to that solution.