Router that can handle multiple gateways with fail-over?

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Struggling to find a router that can handle two WAN connections and properly fail-over in the event of an outage.

I'm thinking LTE + starlink or LTE + traditional satellite.

Would be first prize to be able to program the router to failover when the main connection is down and back when it's been up for at least a minute.

Does anyone know of something decent to do this?
 
I'm happy with a migration... any model suggestions? It doesn't need wifi. Thanks!
 
lkpat said:
I'm happy with a migration... any model suggestions? It doesn't need wifi. Thanks!
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scoop.co.za

MikroTik hAP ac2 5 Port Gigabit 1200Mbps WiFi 5 Router | RBD52G-5HacD2HnD-TC

MikroTik's RB-HAPAC2 is a Dual-concurrent Access Point that provides WiFi coverage for 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies at the same time. Five 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports provide Gigabit connections for your wired devices, and USB can be used for external stora
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za

Or the newer

scoop.co.za

MikroTik hAP ac3 5 Port Gigabit 1200Mbps PoE WiFi 5 Router | RBD53iG-5HacD2HnD

MikroTik's RB-HAPAC3 is an 802.11ac, dual chain, dual-band wireless route featuring 5 Gigabit Ethernet Ports, PoE input on Port 1 and PoE Out on Port 5.
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za

You can turn the Wi-Fi off
 
I got one of these years ago. Bit simpler to operate than a Mikro for the avg layman but the Mikro is more powerful/versatile.

www.tp-link.com

Load Balance Broadband Router

Load Balance Broadband Router
www.tp-link.com www.tp-link.com



Its also limited to 100Mbps ( well mine was at the time ) but it worked beautifully for failover or time based routing. I used to juggle Telkom LTE and RAIN uncapped evening. Pumped 400Gb's odd through it.

Still use it vs the provided isp Mikro as it handles fibre as well and If I ever need I can plug something for failover. Only device not mine on my network is my fibre ont.
 
Mzezman said:
scoop.co.za

MikroTik hAP ac2 5 Port Gigabit 1200Mbps WiFi 5 Router | RBD52G-5HacD2HnD-TC

MikroTik's RB-HAPAC2 is a Dual-concurrent Access Point that provides WiFi coverage for 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequencies at the same time. Five 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports provide Gigabit connections for your wired devices, and USB can be used for external stora
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za

Or the newer

scoop.co.za

MikroTik hAP ac3 5 Port Gigabit 1200Mbps PoE WiFi 5 Router | RBD53iG-5HacD2HnD

MikroTik's RB-HAPAC3 is an 802.11ac, dual chain, dual-band wireless route featuring 5 Gigabit Ethernet Ports, PoE input on Port 1 and PoE Out on Port 5.
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za

You can turn the Wi-Fi off
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Thanks, I'm looking at this:
scoop.co.za

MikroTik hAP ax3 4 Gigabit 1 Port 2.5G PoE 1800Mbps WiFi 6 Router | C53UiG+5HPaxD2HPaxD

MikroTik's RB-HAPAX3 WiFi 6 router features a quad-core ARM 1.8GHz CPU, 4x Gigabit Ethernet Ports and 1x 2.5Gbps Ethernet Port. It also features 1x USB 3.0 port for external storage or 4G/LTE modem as well as PoE input and Output.
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za
Looks like good value with the CPU and RAM on board being way above most of the others. Also L6 RouterOS.


I find it super annoying that I can't get one of these: https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-chatea...igabit-router-d53g-5hacd2hnd-tc-fg621-ea.html
Vodacom don't have it on their list of approved devices. No doubt neither does MTN or Telkom. Who do they sell them to?
 
lkpat said:
Thanks, I'm looking at this:
scoop.co.za

MikroTik hAP ax3 4 Gigabit 1 Port 2.5G PoE 1800Mbps WiFi 6 Router | C53UiG+5HPaxD2HPaxD

MikroTik's RB-HAPAX3 WiFi 6 router features a quad-core ARM 1.8GHz CPU, 4x Gigabit Ethernet Ports and 1x 2.5Gbps Ethernet Port. It also features 1x USB 3.0 port for external storage or 4G/LTE modem as well as PoE input and Output.
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za
Looks like good value with the CPU and RAM on board being way above most of the others. Also L6 RouterOS.


I find it super annoying that I can't get one of these: https://scoop.co.za/mikrotik-chatea...igabit-router-d53g-5hacd2hnd-tc-fg621-ea.html
Vodacom don't have it on their list of approved devices. No doubt neither does MTN or Telkom. Who do they sell them to?
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Is there a reason you are concerned about approved devices? As long as the technology handling matches, it should be fine.
 
Lost interest in mikrotik a long time ago since they are top priority for getting exploited.

Is expensive for the physical device and scaled up for corporate but those Sophos XG devices/software is pretty decent IMO. If you have a old pc with at least 3 ethernet adapters you can download the free version of the xg appliance. Sd WAN profiles uses a SLA to failover which can automatically fail over on terrible connections etc... They’re also pretty neat web filters and can connect with AD for authenticated web access allowing you to control who accesses what.
 
Moosedrool said:
Lost interest in mikrotik a long time ago since they are top priority for getting exploited.

Is expensive for the physical device and scaled up for corporate but those Sophos XG devices/software is pretty decent IMO. If you have a old pc with at least 3 ethernet adapters you can download the free version of the xg appliance. Sd WAN profiles uses a SLA to failover which can automatically fail over on terrible connections etc... They’re also pretty neat web filters and can connect with AD for authenticated web access allowing you to control who accesses what.
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They lost me when they overcomplicated a simple task.

I've been in networking for a few decades and even I got annoyed with simple things taking ages to set up. Preset configs are foreign to them.
 
The_Ogre said:
They lost me when they overcomplicated a simple task.

I've been in networking for a few decades and even I got annoyed with simple things taking ages to set up. Preset configs are foreign to them.
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Mikrotik or sophos xg?
 
Ja, I must admit, It's been a while since I've played with Mikrotik.
Crikey, doing something simple is so complex lol.
The default on my device is to have ether1 set up for WAN and ports 2-5 for LAN (I assume). I have it routing nicely with the LTE router on a different subnet connected to ether1. I'd like to connect the Satellite system to ether5 and configure it as the backup with distance=2 and ether1 distance=1.

RouterOS 7.8 is installed.
Any pointers on where to start with this webfig or terminal?
These articles aren't very helpful: https://scoop.co.za/blog/basic-isp-failover-with-mikrotik

Failover (WAN Backup) - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation

help.mikrotik.com help.mikrotik.com

In both cases, my gateway equipment (Huawei LTE router and Satellite router) have static IPs and receive dynamic IPs from the ISP.
 
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