General • VRRP access network also from slave?

First time setting up VRRP on a LAN network and have a question. Here is my basic setup:

Mikrotik 1
WAN 1.1.1.1
LAN_interface: 192.168.1.2/24
VRRP_interface: 192.168.1.1/24

Mikrotik 2
WAN 2.2.2.2
LAN_interface: 192.168.1.3/24
VRRP_interface: 192.168.1.1/24

The master/slave transfer works perfectly. But I can not reach the LAN 192.168.1.0/24 from the router that is the SLAVE, not even the VRRP IP or the other mikrotiks lan ip. Is this behavior normal or could I modify some settings to make it work?

To explain a bit more what my goal is, I want to have redundancy also for the case where a WAN would fail. I have VPNs on both mikrotiks, and want to reach the LAN devices if I VPN into either of them. At the moment, if Mikrotik 1 is master, but its WAN goes down, I can not reach the LAN from Mikrotik 2 (and vice versa...). Right now, the only idea I have is to manually change the priority of the vrrp interface after I would VPN into the router with the working wan connection so it takes the master role...

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by kriki — Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:26 pm

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