Full MikroTik MTCRE - Recursive Routing (Easy Automatic failover)

Hello and welcome to another video! Today we will be looking at what Recursive routing is, what Route Scopes allow us to achieve and how to implement Recursive routing for failover purposes on a MikroTik device with multiple WAN connections.

Timestamps:
📕00:00 - Introduction
📕00:40 - Recursive Routing theory
📕04:40 - Routing Scopes
📕07:35 - Recursive Route Config

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[javiervaldeschavez]

Magic! Thanks a lot brother, I this helped me a lot. Great demonstration!

[mostafavii]

The best video on the internet for recursive routing details ;)

[Anavllama]

In a failover scenario (vice load balancing) its more common to just do recursive on the first route. If the first one is not available then the second route will be used regardless.
In this case often folks make two recursive routes for the primary in the case where we go one step further, what if one of the DNS services is down.

[wiebehageman]

Thank you very much for all the good and nice video's. It is an excellent refresh of the MT courses (MTCRE, MCTINE). Not sure of it is in scope but could you do one with PIM SM together with ospf/bgp routing ? Very populair item with all IPTV setups knowadays. Thx !!!

[ACannaos]

Hi, can you adapt this tutorial using ROS 7 and also using lte as one of the connection ? By the way thank you for your remarkable work !

[randominternet]

Wahoo - this is exactly something I want to do. I'm on RoS 7.X (because the new device shipped with that).

[matthewmanuel]

I've been watching so much about your mikrotik lessons and i learned alot from it i wanna say thank you for the effort that you put in teaching these videos but can i ask if you could make a video about gaming prioritization?

[talharafique]

great information and technique, well is there a way we can make logs when WAN1 goes down and goes Up ? so to check later on and to diagnose??

[roberttan]

Hi sir, Thanks for letting us know about this, its so help me a lot, hope you don't mind, i am applying this for Mikrotik CCR2116 but it coudn't run, hopeyou can help me. Thanks a lot

[jamesugbojoide]

Thanks, network berg for your immense contribution to networking. I have this error from my Mikrotik router port interface below. I have bought the original cable and changed from auto-negotiation to 100mbps speed. This effort did not resolve the issue, kindly advise. Thanks
ether2- SECTOR2 RADIO fcs error on link

[gigatt]

Hey Berg, nice video and explanation. Do you mind using RouterOS v7.x, in this newer versions, you need to change target scope also, in order for this to continue working. Otherwise, a horrible headache will appear.

[muhamadkhalaf]

Thank you
so on this way no need i think to add dns because it already added on router for each ISP
is it ok ? or i should add dns on ip/dns add dns

[latostime]

But how to apply this if the ISP1 is just giving intermittent connection?
The link is up, Internet is online, it just that intermittent with ping reply and timed out, not a total link failure.
Can this also do the trick ?

I understand that this setup is only for ISP1 with link / interface down or offline.

[edwardkwadjokubi]

plz what topology are u using for the lab

[SrikantaDas]

make a video of this based on ros 7.x. thanks

[safiullah]

Sir i want some infromation please make video in multiple recursive if WAN1 fail to shift WAN2 automatically if there is no internet also in WAN2 then all traffic should be move to WAN3
please make video on this setting
thank you

[javiermacias]

Thank you for the video, explanation is great.
Is there a way to send a notification via email when one route is down? this is because it could be a remote site and this way you know one internet service is down.
thanks again for the video.

[krishnamurthynalli]

Hai, I am new to Mikrotik, my isp providing bandwidth by using RouterBOARD 3011UiAS as main server using port 4 and for failover connected ccr1009 to port 5(RouterBOARD 3011UiAS) when main server input goes down i have to manually change route to ccr1009, is their any way for auto failover, and i am using hotspot logins for 70 customers. I hope you understand my question. both lines from same isp

[mukto]

How can we do netwatch in this scenario? If primary down send notifications

[nielsvdeng]

This is very informative. I use this mechanism for a while now. In combination with netwatch it is even more powerfull. But.. with Ros 7.x it doesn't seem to work this way. Maybe you can make a video of this based on ros 7.x. thanx. I like your video's a lot.