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About razorblade

Internet and Networking Expert, work a lot with Virtualization on Debian server and Mikrotik Devices. Php software developer.

Queue Tree Mikrotik to limit total bandwidth

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Hi Guys,
today i’ll show you how to manage the Mikrotik Queue Tree to limit the total bandwidth (for. example you can split a 20Mbps DSL to 4Mbps per 5 users)
In my example i’ll limit upload+download=20Mbps

First of all we need to mark the packets to be traced in the queue:

/ip firewall mangle
add action=mark-packet chain=prerouting in-interface=ether3 new-packet-mark=upload
add action=mark-packet chain=postrouting new-packet-mark=download out-interface=ether3

Then we’ll set up the queue tree:

/queue tree
add max-limit=20M name=total-traffic parent=global queue=default
add name=upload packet-mark=upload parent=total-traffic queue=default
add name=download packet-mark=download parent=total-traffic queue=default

In this case the upload and download mark will be added and when this sum reach the limit it is possibile to send an email as alert (You can find the script for checking the queue tree limit here.)

Enjoy!

MikroTik Scripting: Failover Routing for Asterisk PBX

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Hi guys,

This is my second article and I wanted to raise the difficulty level of my tutorials!

We work a lot with Asterisk PBX and MikroTik and we’ve encountered a problem when we have 2 internet connection with a MikroTik using WAN failover, our Asterisk PBX would stop working when the primary connections fail; we finally  figured out why.

In this case, the Asterisk connections would remain appended to the primary gateway, and Asterisk doesn’t understand the change of connection; so we came up with a solution using 2 MikroTik scripts.

First, the “Check Script” checks if the primary internet connection is working or not. If fails, use the secondary internet link and reboot the router. You are probably asking why we would do this…I know!

Because after the reboot I can run a “Restart Script” to check if primary connection is still out, or came back.

In this way, by rebooting the router, the asterisk pbx client loose for a moment the registration and reconnect with the new gateway so everything works.
Actually we’re testing other solutions to avoid the router reboot…when I’ve found that I’ll update this post and let you know!

Editors note: This could be achieved in a few ways, I’ll leave it as a test for our readers to see what improvements you can come up with!

Here are the scripts:

Check Script

:global strDate [/system clock get date]
:global strTime [/system clock get time]
:global strSystemName [/system identity get name]

:if ([/ping 10.104.7.187 interface=pppoe-out1 count=5] = 0 && [/ping 8.8.4.4 interface=pppoe-out1 count=5] = 0 && [/ip route get [find comment="Primary"] disabled]=false) do={
    :log info "Disabling Primary";
    /ip route set [find comment="Primary"] disabled=yes
    /tool e-mail send from="[email protected]" to="[email protected]" subject="Route Failover - $strDate $strTime - $strSystemName" body="Failover to Telecom occurred at $strDate $strTime on $strSystemName"
    :delay 3
    /system reboot

} else= {
    :log info "No Failover Necessary";
}

Restart Script

:delay 10;
:if ([/ip route get [find comment="Primary"] disabled]=true) do={
    /interface ethernet set numbers=4 disabled=no

     /ip route set [find comment="Primary"] disabled=no
     /ip route set [find comment="Primary"] distance=3
    :delay 10
    :if ([/ping 10.104.7.187 routing-table=Primary count=5] > 0 && [/ping 8.8.4.4 routing-table=Primary count=5] > 0) do={

       /ip route set [find comment="Primary"] distance=1
       /system reboot
    }
     else= {

        /ip route set [find comment="Primary"] distance=3

    }
} else= {
    :log info "No Failover Necessary";
}

Written by Razorblade, edited by Omega-00

Mikrotik Script: Alert on queue tree limit exceeded

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Hi guys,

This is my first post here, I’m a Network Engineer who works a lot with Mikrotik devices and Server Administration and you can see more of my posts on my website. I found this blog some time ago and was invited to contribute with some of my own scripts that may help others!

Today i’ll show you a little script for RouterOS to check if queue tree exceed the limit you set.

For. Example I’ve got a queue tree that limits the amount of total traffic (Upload+Download) to 50Mbps.

I want to know whenever this queue exceed the limit, and I want the system to send me an email.

This is the script:

:global checkrate [/queue tree get total-traffic rate]
:local limit 50000000

:if ( $checkrate < $limit ) do={
:log info ("Queue not Exceeded")
}
:if ( $checkrate > $limit ) do={
:log info ("Queue Exceeded")
/tool e-mail send server=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx from="[email protected]" to="[email protected]" subject=("Queue Limit Exceed") body=("Queue Limit Exceed, Limit is: " . $checkrate)
}



Enjoy!