QUOTE(Oltromen Ripot @ Nov 26 2021, 04:48 PM)
Home use. Wireless feature unnecessary as I wire-backhaul to 2 Deco M9 Plus.
I am looking into automated failover from primary (1) Unifi (dial out PPPoE) to secondary (2) Huawei B618.
Questions:
(1) I see all Mikrotik 5-port routers have dedicated 1-port WAN. Does this mean I cannot use additional port (s) to achieve multi-WAN?
(2) Mikrotik routers can handle fibre vlan? (already have tp-link vlan switch to (un)tag vlan500 if necessary)
(3) Mikrotik routers can handle DHCPv4? DHCPv6 and/or similar?
(4) Mikrotik routers can do DDNS to any provider? (i use cloudns)
(5) Mikrotik routers have firewall to prevent intrusion from outside?
(6) Mikrotik have access to command line? Is it linux? Can install packages? to run any command?
(7)n Which Mikrotik router is capable of handling 1Gbps fibre? (for future-proof). The Hex?
(w/ tp-link vlan switch, i was already able to use huawei b618 to prioritise dial to unifi and failover to lte-a network. however i was disappointed that the gigabit wan and lan port on b618 was only able to max 171Mbps regardless fibre or lte-a. all cables used during test are CAT6e. replacing b618 back to tm-supplied router was able to get back ~500Mbps as subscribed, so test wasn't influenced by wifi speed.)
(1) Any interface can be configured as WAN. Even the wifi interface. You can have 4 WAN and 1 LAN if you like.
(2) VLAN, yes.
(3) DHCPv4, yes. The DHCPv6 server in RouterOS 6.x can only give out prefixes not addresses.
(4) Yes, if the provider has some sort of API for updating DNS records.
(5) Comes with a preconfigured but very basic firewall. Up to you to config.
(6) SSH and telnet. RouterOS is based on Linux but cannot install 3rd party packages.
(7) Hex can handle 1Gbps only with Fasttrack running (Mikrotik's term for NAT acceleration). If no Fasttrack, probably RB3011 or RB4011 and above.
This post has been edited by soonwai: Nov 26 2021, 08:16 PM