by Maher Haddad | Aug 28, 2024 | Static Route
In the last lesson of this chapter, I am going to speak about the Recursive next-hop route by manipulating the scope and target-scope usage. Let’s imagine that we have the following scenario: My goal is to reach the network 3.3.3.0/24 from R1. If we wanted to use...
by Maher Haddad | Aug 27, 2024 | Static Route
Here we start with a new topic which is the routing mark and the route policy. Before we go in depth into this topic, it is very important that we know that in MikroTik we do have 2 tables when talking about routing: Routing Information Base (RIB) Forwarding...
by Maher Haddad | Aug 27, 2024 | Static Route
Another interesting topic that I would like to explore now is about the Time to Live (TTL). By default, the TTL is a field in the IP header that sets how many routers a packet can traverse before it is discarded, meaning that it has a number set to it and each time...
by Maher Haddad | Aug 27, 2024 | Static Route
Another topic that I would like to explore with you on the static route is the Equal Cost Multi-path (ECMP). Imagine you have the below scenario: You have 2 links between R1 and R2 which the remote networks can use to be able to reach each other. In the previous...
by Maher Haddad | Aug 27, 2024 | Static Route
For now, we have a basic understanding of static routes. The next topic that I would like to speak about is the more specific static routes. Let’s say that we do have 3 different ways to reach to the same destination, then which of the ways will the MikroTik router...
by Maher Haddad | Aug 26, 2024 | Static Route
A question that I always get from students, whether from my online video courses or from classroom students: “Why we need routing in our network?” It is a very smart question from students who don’t know yet the importance of routing protocols. To answer the question,...
