Out of Band Configuration

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Overview

When HamWAN routing fails, it's useful to have a secondary communication channel into the network. This is called out-of-band (or OOB for short) communication. HamWAN doesn't pass regular network traffic over OOB links, only control information (eg: SSH) is allowed in most cases.

Configuration

/ip route vrf add routing-mark=OOB interfaces=<OOB interface>
/ip address add interface=<OOB interface> address=<OOB IP>
/ip route add routing-mark=OOB gateway=<OOB default gateway>
/ip firewall mangle add chain=output action=mark-routing new-routing-mark=OOB src-address=<OOB IP>