cisco etherchannel & two bridges on same RouterOS

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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hi all. I am thinking if the following scenario could work:

                           / (Antenna) - - - (Antenna)   \    
ETHERCHANNEL(dot1q)  -- MTK                              MTK  --  ETHERCHANNEL(dot1q)  
                           \ (Antenna) - - - (Antenna)   /

A Cisco etherchannel on each side, two different links on the same routerboard , both working as bridge.
A few vlans will be pased through the bridges.

This setup could work?
From what i have found until now, dot1q trunk will work. But:

  • etherchannel will work?
  • two bridges on the same mikrotik will work?

Thanks

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any idea??

3

Using bridges on the MT, it SHOULD work. I’d highly recommend against it though, EC requires links to be exceptionally stable, both in terms of link status, as well as duplex (which is going to be a problem wirelessly).

No reason why it shouldn’t work though.

4

Has anyone tried it in real world???
Its for a very short-distance link, 200m.

5

I have not tried it, but it should work.

I would recommend eigrp with equal cost load balancing instead of etherchannel if you have layer 3 switches.

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its layer 2 :wink:

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I don’t see the reason to have the etherchannel here. Sum of WLANs speed will hardly exceed the ethernet speed. Or am I missing something?
And I expect the etherchannel is not terminated on MT itself, isn’t it? I think MT’s bonding’ is not compatible with Cisco’s etherchannel