Hi All,
Looking for guide on making sure I get the best performance out of the CCR’s as I plan to install them in our core infrastructure.
The structure is
[SUPPLIER1] [SUPPLIER2] [SUPPLIER1] [SUPPLIER2]
\ / \ /
\ / \ /
[SWITCH1] [SWITCH2]
\ /
\ /
\ /
[MIKROTIK CCR-1036-8G-2S]
So both suppliers give dual ethernet feed, one feed to each switch in my rack.
Then both switches link back to the CCR. They actually link back via 2 ethernets using LACP bonding, so the CCR has 2x bonding interfaces
Supplier 1 is VLAN200, supplier 2 is VLAN300.
I have created VLAN200 and VLAN300 under both bonding interfaces.
Is it best now to create a bridge interface and bridge the 2x VLAN interfaces together?
These connections will be doing 200-400mbps each. How much of a performance hit would there be in adding the bridge?
The 2nd switch and 2nd bonding is merely for redundancy, rather than load balancing, and was expecting STP to take care of the switching, but I am afraid of pushing the packets to the cpu for processing too many times and limiting the performance on the CCR.
Is bridging the VLAN’s the best way, and having 2 different bridges?
Or should I bridge the 2x bonding interfaces and create VLAN’s under the 1 bridge?
Thanks.
EDIT: text has gone a bit wonky for the network map but should still be followable.