That should be very easy to do. If MT1 can't ping MT2 then dial up the eoip.
Never done it myself but off the top of my head I think that's all you'd need to do. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Rory McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apologies for the MS paint disaster, but this is a basic diagram of the > part of the network I am concerned with. As you can see, the main location > has our primary internet connection and an RB1000. The far elevator would > have a backup internet connection and probably an RB750. I only want the > backup connection to kick in should the wireless link (the 28 mile one) fail > and the far elevators lose their connectivity back to the main location. > > Overall bandwidth is not a concern as this would just be a "failover" > situation. They will be using Citrix (which is essentially glorified > terminal services) so there won't be a ton of data flowing through. I just > need to make sure they can keep working if something happens. > > I'd probably want some kind of netwatch script that would keep the > interface with the backup internet connection turned off until failure, at > which time it would turn off the port to the 28 mile wireless link and turn > on the port to the backup internet and dial the VPN tunnel. It could run > like this for the remainder of the day and say at midnight, check to see if > connectivity is restored on the wireless. Should connectivity be restored, > I'd like it to shut down the VPN tunnel and the backup internet connection > port and turn the wireless port back on. > > I hope I'm not making this more complicated than it needs to be and hope > this helps clarify things. > > > > > On 4/28/2010 4:53 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > >> It would be handy to have a network map to grasp what you have. >> >> I'm thinking all you need to do is eoip the two MT routers. What kind >> of bandwidth would they need to pass? >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20100428/e4b6a881/attachment.html > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: Untitled.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 66865 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20100428/e4b6a881/attachment.jpg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20100428/11ccc432/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
