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FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:59 pm

I have 2 RB1100AH one Site A and one Site B, I have 2 wireless link from A to B one with 17GHz the second with 2 5GHz Groove this for backup.
Which is the best solution for using 5GHz as backup of the 17GHz link? I thinking about bridge with RSTP or OSPF.
With bridge and rstp I can decide the priority of the port, but I prefer bridge with switch hardware of RB1100, and I can't find nothing about priority.
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Tue Aug 06, 2013 12:31 am

RSTP is really designed more for loop prevention than selecting a forwarding path. It can be configured to do so, but OSPF is really better suited to select the best path between the two.

Unless you understand spanning tree extremely well, I would recommend against tuning spanning tree cost
 
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:53 am

Ok. I want to use main link everytime, and switch as fast as possible to backup in case of heavy rain and 17 GHz link down
 
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Wed Aug 07, 2013 3:19 am

You can tune the OSPF dead timer down to 2 to 3 seconds and rely solely on that, or ypu can couple that with BFD and get your failover time down into the milliseconds. BFD requires careful tuning to avoid constant route flapping but is well worth the effort.
 
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:01 am

BFD seem perfect for my main backbone link , because I need to reduce the down time as maximum as possible.
I'll looking for that.
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:34 am

Another option can be Bonding?

My main backbone is this:

                _____(24GHz)_______>        _____(17GHz)_______>
GW---SiteA                                 SiteB                                SiteC----Network
                ---------(5GHz)--------->        --------(5GHz)--------->
 
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:55 am

Link ag is only beneficial if the links are of identical speed and latency. If they are different speeds, you can actually make it run slower than if they were independent.

If you do choose to test bonding, use LACP (802.3ad) as it will manage the bundling and traffic hashing
 
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:40 am

Ok, like I show my link are different 24/17GHz high bandwith this is the main link and 5GHz only for backup/failover.
 
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:45 am

What are the speeds of those backhauls?
 
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Re: FailOver Bridge STP vs OSPF

Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:11 am

The 24GHz is AirFiber (700MbitFD) but for me is ok 384Mb, and 17GHz is Siae and is around 400Mbit.
I need a bandwith tranfer from 350 to 400Mb

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