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 choose? The answer is: it can be all 3 ways, only 1 or only 2. That means that there are some criteria that the MikroTik router will be using in order to choose which of the routes will be used.
You may be saying now: this is still not clear. What are those criterias that Maher is talking about. To make it clearer for you, I will go into a LAB and with the implementation you will be able to understand it better.
LAB: More specific static routes
I am still on the same LAB scenario that was done in the previous lecture, and I have just added 2 links between Ether3 and Ether4 interfaces on both routers.
Also, the IP addresses are set on both routers on Ether3 and Ether4 as per the graph. For the moment, if the network 1.1.1.0/24 wants to reach to the network 2.2.2.0/24, then it has only 1 way to reach it via Ether2 link because we have already configured the static route for it in the previous lecture.
That’s a prove that the static route is working on the Ether2 link between R1 and R2.
Now that I have other 2 links connected between R1 and R2 (Ether3 and Ether4), why not to do also static routes to let the traffic flows from 1.1.1.0/24 to 2.2.2.0/24 and vice versa pass from them.
I will start with the link on Ether3. I will do a static route on R1 to reach 2.2.2.0/16 to go via Ether3 of R2 and vice versa. Let’s do that.
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