5 Steps to Create Policy Based Routing in MikroTik RouterĪs like the above simple office network diagram, I hope, you have dual WAN connections in your MikroTik router as well as a number of hosts are connected to this MikroTik router to access internet. As dual WAN connections are available for this MikroTik router, we will create a policy routing so that our half of the total LAN users will access internet through WAN1 ISP connection and rest of the LAN users will access internet through WAN2 ISP connection. Also, a number of hosts are connected to this MikroTik router through a distribution switch. In this network diagram, there are two ISP connections those are being used as WAN connections of a MikroTik router. For example, consider a simple office network diagram like below where two ISP connections are being used as gateways of a MikroTik router. If you have a number of hosts as well as multiple ISP connections, you may group your hosts by IP addresses and then depending on the source IP address send traffic out through different ISP connections. So, today I will show you a policy in MikroTik router by which you can build a load balancing network. Policy Based Routing ( PBR) is a technique which is used to make routing decisions based on policies those are set by any network administrator. Policy Routing Based on Client IP Address
Among them, today I will show you how to do only load balancing network using Policy Based Routing (PBR) in MikroTik router. There are a number of ways by which you can make load balancing as well as link redundancy using MikroTik router. If you have multiple ISP connections, you can balance your network load as well as you can make link redundancy. I think, you are now determined to use multiple ISP connections in your network. In this case, you can purchase another ISP bandwidth which is cheap but their connection is good, not better. You have an ISP connection that is better but high paid bandwidth.In this case, you can use another ISP which will provide you better service.
You have an ISP connection that is not so good but you cannot disconnect it because you are using other services (such as Mail, IPPBX etc.) of this ISP.So, it will be better to use more than one ISP connection in your network so that you can increase your internet access probability.
If you have multiple ISP connections in your network, you can send your network traffic through those ISP connections and can make a load balancing network. Load Balancing is a technique used to send network traffic over multiple gateways.