Routing and Networking Protocols
This section covers RouterOS routing and networking protocol guides, including routing decisions, policy routing, VRF, route filtering, BGP, OSPF, RIP, EVPN, MPLS, and migration from RouterOS v6 to v7. Use it to design and troubleshoot routed networks.
Routing Decision
Routing is the process of selecting paths across networks to move packets from one host to another. The path selection, also called the routing decision, relies on a routing information table. That table contains route entries, each of which specifies a destination and the next hop used to reach it. A hop occurs when a packet passes from one network segment to another.
Moving from ROSv6 to ROSv7
By default, all routes are added to the "main" routing table as it was before. From a configuration point of view, the biggest differences are routing table limit increase, routing table monitoring differences, and how routes are added to specific routing tables (see next example).
Routing Protocol Multi-core Support
RouterOS v7 can split tasks between multiple processes.
Policy Routing
Policy routing steers traffic that matches criteria to a specific gateway. Use it to force selected customers or protocols, such as HTTP traffic, to always use a particular gateway. It can also route local and overseas traffic through different gateways.
VRF
Description
Unicast
7 items
MPLS
4 items
Multicast
3 items
Route Distinguisher and Route Target
Route Distinguisher
Route Selection and Filtering
Route Filtering