I am quite new to the Mikrotik box and it’s features.
However, I have a RouterBoard 750G using RouterOS 4.11
What I would like to achieve using this box is the following:
(1.) I have 2 physical layer2 trunkports passing the same Vlans (only 1 link can be used at the same time.)
(2.) The above layer 2 links are connected to my Access Point with multiple SSIDs.
What I would like to achieve is to connect the 2 links to this RouterBoard and channel the output to my Access Points so that it will give Active Fail over.
TrunkPort link 1 -------> Eth1
MikroTik Eth3 -----> Wifi Access Point
TrunkPort link 2 -------> Eth2
Hence Eth1 and Eth2 will be bonded with Active Fail Over
The Eth1 and Eth2 Bond will be bridged into Eth3 which will be connected to the Access Point.
As I mentioned, the goal of this setup will be to maintain active fail over for the Access Point using Link 1 or Link2.
Is this possible with the RouterBoard?
Any suggestions and advice will be appreciated.
If your AP only has one plug for a network cable you have a single point of failure.
If you really wanted to you could a switch that supports LACP (802.3ad) and VLANs, and bond two interfaces on the router to two interfaces on the switch, and then run one link from switch to AP. I don’t see what that gains you. If the AP interface or the switch port facing the AP goes down you still lose the AP.
You can’t have network redundancy with a single interface on an AP.
Yes the Access Point has only 1 network interface.
But I have 2 links providing connectivity to this AP.
Hence I wanted to know if the RouterBoard has the feature to make those 2 physical links to the AP redundant.
I am more concerned about the 2 physical links to the AP going down instead of the single Ethernet port of the AP going down.
The simple requirement is to make Link2 (Eth2) come up if Link1 (Eth1) connected to the RouterBoard goes down with another port (Eth3) of the RouterBoard connecting to the AP.
Also I don’t want to add an extra switch to the existing setup as I have to duplicate this setup in many places.
Well, no. If the AP only has one interface how are you going to “fail over” if that cable or uplink interface goes bad? That would require physical intervention and someone to change cables around.
I also think you’re concerned about the wrong thing, but that’s beside the point.
What you’re asking for is simply impossible. Not just on RouterBOARDs.