Breaking a bonded pair

RouterOS Forwarding Protocols
1

I have two RB1100’s connected via a bonded pair of ethernets between them, ports 9 and 10,
and wish to end the bonding.

How do I terminate the bondedness at the local site without losing control over the
remote site?

Homer

2

Remove bonding at far-end first. Then remove it at your near end

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3

Thank you. As I am unable to actually change the configuration of the bonding,
all I can do is delete it. Or disable it?

But that leaves two ethernets connected between the two machines, neither of which is in a bridge nor do they have IP subnets on them at either end. Bang I am down right?

Homer

4

What’s your setup?
Left router: IP on BOND interface ------- 2 links lacp ----- IP on bond interface: Right router ???

And you use the same link for Right router management?

  1. Go to right router( remote end) and remove 1 link from the bond; don’t change anything else in the bond, just go into the bond config and remove one of the links
  2. Create a temporary /30 subnet for the migration, assign 1 IP to the right hand router interface which you removed from the bond
  3. remove the equivalent interface from the bond on the left router and put the other ip
    at this stage you should be able to connect to the right hand router via the old way but also via the new link…maybe you need to review firewall rules**
    next steps can be:
    4a. adjust the routing on both ends to use the newly created link and delete everything bond related
    OR
    4b connect to right router on the new link, remove bond, put bond IP on the interface that remained on the bond, do the same on left router;

After you make sure everything runs ok you can delete the temp link.