Rural Africa : MultiWan Load Balancing with VLAN ( Mikrotik RB750UP to Pfsense)
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Hello Dear Experts :D
I live in rural Africa in a part of the country where ADSL connections are capped at 1 M/s.
I am in the process of scoping out a multi-wan solution with vlan in order to reach a needed 4 M/s connection and acquiring the required gear to accomplish that.Here is a rough diagram showing the plan to load balance 4 x 1M/s accessed wirelessly.
Here is a description of a similar setup recommended by Pfsense team, using a managed switch:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN_using_VLANs_with_pfSense
Since we need to power the Ubiquiti CPE Clients using POE (outdoors), I would like to use Mikrotik RB750UP Router as an affordable VLAN capable switch.
Creating VLAN2… VLAN5 to tag traffic coming from WAN 1-4 though the Ubiquiti AP routers onto POE capable ports 2-5 on RB750UP.
Then sending that traffic through port 1 RB750UP into Pfsense.
Then setting up load balancing between VLAN 2-5 in Pfsense using its MultiWan feature set.
We already know how to use pfsense for load balancing.
However, reading through the Mikrotik documentation I could not determine the following:
Can Mikrotik RB750UP do the job?
Can it tag traffic coming from each wireless client router using VLAN , than send it through to Pfsense and back?
I found the following document, but could not decipher it with certainty :-\
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Switch_Chip_Features
Thanks in advance for your kind feedback!!
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http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Switch_Chip_Features#Example_-_802.1Q_Trunking_with_Atheros_switch_chip_in_RouterOS_v6 is exactly what you want to accomplish to
put PoE ports to access mode and "ETHERNET" port to trunk mode, it should be working -
Many thanks for taking the time to review and answer.
I guess I was baffled due to that document saying the switch chip on RB750UP does NOT support Rule tables.
I gather from your previous message that this does not matter for our scenario.
Thanks again for your kind assistance.