That's been driving me nuts too... I just started pointing SNMP to an IP on
a specific interface instead of the loopback IP (like the IP address on
ether1 in George's example), and that's mostly worked, but it's not ideal.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Nate Burke <[email protected]> wrote:

> I haven't tried this method yet, I'll have to test it out.  What I do is
> just set a Static 0.0.0.0/0 route with the gateway on each Backhaul with
> a different routing mark.
>
> firewall/mangle
> mark Connection, chain Input, UDP port 161, set In Interface of Backhaul
> Mark Routing, Chain Output, Check Connection mark from above.
>
> 2 rules for Each backhaul link  Since it's only looking at Input 161, no
> extra CPU overhead.
>
>
>
> On 10/19/2017 3:13 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
>
> SRC NAT the SNMP port to the loopback IP.
>
>
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> *From: *"George Skorup" <[email protected]>
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> *To: *"Animal Farm" <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> *Sent: *Thursday, October 19, 2017 3:12:12 PM
> *Subject: *[AFMUG] Stupid MikroTik SNMP
>
> I know Nate has mentioned this before. Wondering if there's a solution.
> This has been driving me nuts for years.
>
> A large/complicated OSPF design may have some asymmetric paths between A
> and Z. But the problem comes down to asymmetry at the router you're
> trying to poll.
> For example, SNMP polling a router to its loopback IP, requests come in
> on say ether1, but the replies go out ether2 = SNMP timeout. In and out
> same interface works fine.
> Everything else to the router works fine, like WWW, telnet, winbox, etc.
> but obviously those are TCP, so this has me wondering if it's a UDP
> thing or just SNMP...?
>
>
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