I am looking for how I might aggregate SFP ports on my Mikrotik through the RouterOS GUI.
I have seen a couple articles on using commands to do the task, but I am dyslexic and I get easily lost in command interfaces. I am familiar with how to do it in Netgear products, ZFS, and TrueNAS. Every product is a little different. Can anybody point me in the right direction for creating a link aggregation for two of my SFP/fiber lines to connect to our NAS at full 10G?
Thank you so much in advance. I hope everybody is doing well. Cheers!
I’m somewhat confused by what you’re expecting to get out of this. You have trouble reading words in manuals written by professional technical writers, but you expect you’ll have better luck with words written by networking geeks who like as not don’t even speak English as a first language on a web forum?
How about this instead: the official “Link Aggregation with MikroTik” tutorial on YouTube. It doesn’t show the “RouterOS GUI” — properly called either WinBox or WebFig — but it does show the commands you need. From there, you may be able to map it to the pointy-clicky things in these two very different GUIs.
Beware that link aggregation isn’t a panacea. It’s pretty easy to collapse a dual link down to single-link speeds, depending on your usage pattern. If you want twice 10G, getting a switch with 25G ports may be a better plan.
Actually, the video you posted is a perfect answer. Thank you. I can follow that along much more easily than reading through manuals and, as you said, longer explanations. Once I walk through it a couple times, I’ll be good. I was poking around with it last night in WinFig and it’s not too difficult to follow, and this video will be a huge help as well. Thanks again.
We had a fiber aggregate going from the original 10G Netgear switch to the NAS and it worked wonderfully. Our goal is that traffic to the NAS be as optimized as possible. The NAS is an OWC Jupiter Callisto with currently 192 tebibytes, and the official OWC stance is that a fiber aggregate to the switch is the best practice. It’s a video production house and anything we can to to optimize the connection helps. The editors work directly off of the NAS instead off of local drives. We’re really looking for load balance and fault tolerance.