Connection Bonding

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello there! I have 2 connections through 2 different ISP-s, one ADSL(512kb/s) and one Wireless(1Mb/s) . Is it possible to bond these 2 connections and get 1.5mb/s and less loss? I have seen many bonding examples but I don’t think they were what I was looking for. If this is possible please tell me what do I need to do this(how many network interfaces) or point me to any tutorials.

Thanks again,
Dren

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Dren -

You need to have a MikroTik box at both ends of your connection to bond lines…since you have two different ISPs it is not possible…

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Damn. I thought of doing that too, in the first MT box to create EoIP tunnels for each connection and in the second to bond them(this wouldn’t be a problem, I can set up to 3 MT boxes) bot seems that the problem is because im using 2 different ISPs right?

A friend of mine is connected to the same wireless AP and we have the same gateway, can I bond with his IP and get 2meg/s?

Please reply,
Dren

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Keep Dreaming you never get my 2Mb Connection :stuck_out_tongue:

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Dren -
Each end of the bonded interfaces have to be at the same respective locations. Meaning you need one at the ISP end and one at the tail end.

Now as long as you and your friend are at the same physical location on one end and you can get a box setup at the ISP end then you can use your friend’s connection as well. If you and your friend are at two physically different locations - then no…

You won’t get a 2mb connection anyway, more like about 1.6mb - tcp. This is because anytime a tcp packet is transmitted out of order then the tcp protocol requires that the packet be restransmitted in order - along with the corresponding other packet(s). So you end up retransmitting some packets while you are using a bonded line. Several of us have asked MT to setup special queues, or in the bonding portion, some type of ordering discipline to cut down on the retransmitting of packets.

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OK, Kresh, you win :frowning:.

But what about MLPPP in RouterOS 3? Can I turn my connections to PPPoE and then use them all at the same time?

Thanks,
Dren

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You can do dynamic outbound routing if you have access to both of the lines from the one mikrotik thou..

I work quite happily with 2 x DSL Lines and a wireless link connecting to my mikrotik at home. I have one default router, a couple of marked routes that I use for specific traffic and then a wireless link back to my works public network.

Using mangle rules means I can tell certain traffic (http,https,irc,ftp,ssh,msn etc) to go out via one link then mark other things like games,torrents,voip to go out the secondary link and use “where dst-address-list=!work-public” (work public address ranges) to allow that traffic to go out its wireless.

So provided you have direct access to the lines in then you can play around with this, just not able to BOND unless you provide both ends of the links.

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Ahh, got it!

Seems I’m going to use Load Balancing too…

Thanks again,
Dren

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hi,
if i have a mikrotik router with 2 adsl lines, and one mikrotik server in the datacenter, can i bonding the 2 adsl lines?
i have try this:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Bonding_Examples
but seems not work.
Thanks for any help.

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blueice -

Sent you a reply in email.

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