When using recursive routing for dual-WAN failover, RouterOS handles the actual switchover automatically — but it does it silently. Without some form of monitoring layered on top, you won’t know a failover has happened until someone complains the internet feels slow, or you happen to log in and notice the wrong route is active. This
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Part 1: Netwatch Monitoring 🔧 Objective To monitor the health of 3 WAN interfaces (ISP1, ISP2, ISP3) using Netwatch, dynamically managing routing rules and default routes based on link status. This ensures that the PCC load balancing setup only uses active upstreams. 🧱 Step 1: Rename Interfaces 🌐 Step 2: Configure PPPoE on ISP3 🧭
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Introduction to MikroTik Recursive Routing In modern networking, the concept of recursive routing plays a pivotal role in optimizing data transfer across complex networks. At its core, recursive routing involves a multi-step process where a router resolves the best path to a destination by analyzing and resolving intermediate routes. This methodology ensures that data packets
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With Dynamic Gateways Before continuing, please checkout the first instance of this configuration here where we use the same logic but our gateways are configured statically. The priciple here is the same however how we update the distance of the routes in a failover scenario is different as well as how we get the next-hop
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With Static Gateways There is a second instance of this solution here whereby we apply the same config and logic as in this article however with getting the default gateway routes dynamically instead of statically, as we have here. The Ultimate MikroTik Internet Failover #2 Initial Config The configuration for this topology is very simple,
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