Bonded Bridge routing problem

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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I currently have 2 rb333’s connected to 4 motorola backhauls using bonding and bridging. It works great and I no problems with bandwidth across these link and the load balancing works flawlessly. The problem I have is communicating with the 4 radios between the bonds. It uses round robin distribution so the packets get evenly sent down each path which means that when I am trying to work with any of the 4 backhauls between them, they only recieve half of the packets. I have tried setting rules and routes and everything else I can think of to alleviate this issue to no avail.

WAN<—>Eth1<->Bridge<->Bond[Eth2]<—MotoBackhaul1—><—MotoBackhaul2—>Bond[Eth2]<->Bridge<->Eth1<—>LAN

                                • ^>Bond[Eth3]<—MotoBackhaul3—><—MotoBackhaul4—>Bond[Eth2]<^

It seems that the bridge supersedes any policy routing in place.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Blachawk -

Sure - my suggestion would be to take the MTs out of bridged mode… Bondingrr works just fine without a bridge. That way when you put the IP of the Moto radio in - the MT knows where to find it. Right now as a bridge it expects the IP to be accessible on BOTH lines - hence only receiving half the packets…


R/