Hello!
I was curious so i thought id have a stab at it, Can someone use channel bonding for 2 wireless links?
I was trying to see if i could use Mikrotik routers on either end of a couple 5ghz wireless links to make a bonded channel. Using the guide here: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bonding#Quick_Setup_Guide
I have only succeeded in getting partial connectivity, in that i could only send a few packets here and there.
has anyone had anything like this work for them?
I know its designed to work from NIC to NIC, but i figured id try it anyways.
I couldnt get it to work over Eoip tunnels either,
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Bonding_Examples
Im not sure how i assign an eoip tunnel to an ethernet interface tho, thats probably why it isnt working.
I should note also that im trying to do this with external ubiquity nanostation5’s.
Is what im attempting even possible?
maybe im setting up the eoip tunnels wrong, what ip address should i have on the eoip tunnels remote address?, the ip address of the ethernet interface on the other end? the IP of the bonding interface? i can ping the ip that is assigned to the ethernet interface on the other side.
How i have it set now:
router 1,
ether2 10.0.1.1/22
ether3 10.0.2.1/22
bonding interface 10.0.3.1/22 eoip tunnels 1 and 2 as slaves
tunnel 1 eoip target 10.0.1.5
tunnel 2 eoip target 10.0.2.6
router2
ether2 10.0.1.5/22
ether3 10.0.1.6/22
bonding 10.0.3.7/22 eoip tunnels 1 and 2 as slaves
tunnel 1 eoip target 10.0.1.1
tunnel 2 eoip target 10.0.2.1
I cant ping the IP of the bonding interface on the other end.
should this not work with a plain old ethernet connection to bridged wireless radios?
Oh i forgot to mention that im running 4.17 on both mikrotiks.
bump, anyone got a working example? I havnt been able to make this work from wiki examples or the manual.
bump. Anyone got a link or suggestion of where to look for documentation that deals with kind of thing?
Can you explain more about your network setup?
are you using 2 x rb433’s with 2x wifi cards?
you can do this with routing
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/OSPF_to_simulate_full_duplex_links_with_redundancy
Well im trying to get this to work via the ethernet ports 2 and 3 to a pair of nanostation5 links to ports 2 and 3 on the second mikrotik.
Im trying to get this working in a test environment because One of our backhauls is going to need to be doubled soon and what better way to double somthing that with load balancing.
I know you can load balance on ethernet ports, but i couldnt get that working since I have wireless links between the 2 bonded ethernet ports and the other router.
…Ether2|—Ubiquiti nanostation5-------------Ubiquiti nanostation 5—|Ether2
Mikrotik 1 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||Mikrotik 2
…Ether3|—Ubiquiti nanostation5-------------Ubiquiti nanostation 5—|Ether3