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feature request: VPN/PPP bonding

Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:07 am

I'd like to request bonding over PPP or VPN links. Currently routerOS which is supposed to be a dynamic and feature packed cisco alternative is already starting fall behind other brands.
 
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Re: feature request: VPN/PPP bonding

Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:37 pm

Isn't that already achievable with nTH packet based mangle rules (All be it rather CPU intensive).
 
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Re: feature request: VPN/PPP bonding

Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:54 am

Isn't that already achievable with nTH packet based mangle rules (All be it rather CPU intensive).
That's not really "bonding" per-se; that's just flow-based load-balancing. To me, "bonding" means being able to aggregate multiple connections together in such a way that all bonded connections are usable by a single flow.

You could use "/interface bonding", but it is proprietary to RouterOS and only works with ethernet-like interfaces. So the only way you could make use of it with PPP is by using BCP (dumping the PPP interfaces in a bridge, although come to think of it I'm not sure that the "bonding" interface allows you to specify bridges as slaves, and I'm almost sure it wouldn't allow you to directly specify the PPP client interfaces as slaves even though RouterOS PPP client supports BCP), or by bonding multiple ethernet interfaces together on both ends and then running a single PPP client session over the bonded interface.

Strangely, the only non-proprietary, PPP-specific way of achieving bonding -- multilink PPP (MLPPP) -- is supported by the PPP client on RouterOS, but not by the PPP server. If your PPP client device is running RouterOS and your provider is running a PPP concentrator that supports MLPPP, though, that could certainly work.

Turning this back into a "feature request," though, I would phrase it as "please add MLPPP support to the PPP server in RouterOS."

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Re: feature request: VPN/PPP bonding

Wed Mar 18, 2015 6:19 am

"please add MLPPP support to the PPP server in RouterOS."
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