MikroTik Tutorial 36 - Load balancing and failover with multiple gateways (2 WAN Links)

Learn MikroTik RouterOs Tutorial Series (english)

[SaidulHassan]

Watched 35+ of your videos on MikroTik in a single sitting. Planning to purchase RB3011 for my workplace and now I know who to reach out to should I get stuck! Only video channel in English language that speaks on MicroTik configuration and sounds like poetry :-) Thank you @TKSJa

[owolabitaofeeqowodunni]

TKSJa, I really hope you are fine wherever you are. For years now, you've been of great help to me through your videos.

Thanks a lot!

[Joshv]

Ive been watching 100s of these and this is the first one that helped.. thank you !!

[tim]

Ok, so after the last comments, I started from square-one. To get the best results, it is preferable to do a "reset-configuration" prior to starting the process of the "Load Balancing" exercise. In my case, I had been using the router for other things, and a lot of little settings had been changed causing (I suspect), unpredictable results. I also had saved, and exported the configuration settings to a file so I could paste them in one at a time to ensure I could see what was happening.
So, after doing all that, it now seems to work perfectly.. :-) :-)

Thanks !!

[johnbeardmore]

TKSJa, I really enjoy your tutorials, but I'm too dumb to implement your scripting. I want to do something akin to load-balancing with unequal ISP's. I have a 5-port MikroTik hAPac2 router. Is it possible to purchase or otherwise attain a RouterOS pre-configured and 'plug & play' that I can just change the relevant IP (interface) values to match my needs? Thanks (John)

[kqabro]

Hi TKSJa
Thanks for this informative and valuable guide.
As the gateway add is local ip add of internet connected device, what if the internet is down, but your connectivity with that device is up, as ping will still be alive?
further for 3 WAN connections, will be the per connection classifer instead of 2/0 and 2/1?

[HarounHakeel]

Good Stuff you doing there. Quick question, Suppose i have different local subnets, i.e 172.0.0.0/28 & 192.168.0.0/24 do i create independent mangle rules for each subnet or how do i go about it?

[terexshop]

thank you!!!(i'm zero knowledge in mikrotik) it simplify my work! ...watched from tutorial 1

[jasonminae]

Thank you for being a blessing to many. Be mightily blessed for sharing this valuable knowledge on how to configure the MikroTik routers.

[netsurf_technologies]

am so greatful.your tutorials have helped me build my own local isp network in my area

[altatensioneip]

Great tutorial my friend. I have a question for you: this configuration works (I try with wan ADSL and wan LTE with Dongle) but with a limit: if router on wan1 is reachable but without connection I have no switch on second wan. If distance is 1 and 1 all works but if I have to do a failover with difference distance (in case LTE I have to use it only in emergency case) doesnt'work.

[slowboyzrepublic]

Hi sir, what is the configuration of bridge in this tutorial. thanks

[HussainAkbar]

Great tutorial. Succinct and to the point. I've got two out of three of my connections shifted to the router and working fine in load balancing mode.

[Paulosantanak]

This method only works when the cable is unplugged or the interface is down, but it doesn't when the route is unreachable.

[guska_]

thx for your channel, , i hope be will learn more about mikrotik... SALAM DARI LOMBOK INDONESIA

[georgegithu]

Thanks TKSJa, your videos are very useful in understanding mikrotik in depth, i have one issue when my two ISP are live the load balancing is ok, but when wan2 i running then and wan1 is off internet works well but when i reconnect Wan1 back while wan2 is still working the internet disconnect until i disconnect wan2 and reconnect it again.

[vincekimcostales]

It works on my requirement! Highly recommended! Thanks!

[oliverregal]

would this work if the 2 upstream links doesn't have the same bandwidth capacity? How would the router know that link 1 is congested?

[rizwanjamil]

I have two connections one with 15Mbps and other 30Mbps. I want an output connection of 45Mbps along with fail over

[carlb]

What exactly does the numerator and denominator mean for the PCC setting? I saw some videos putting more rules if you have unequal WAN speeds. I thought it was the actual interface #.