I am still strugling with bonding and failover

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Can this be done and can anybody help, I am trying to bond 2 wireless links together with failover, I have a RB at each end of the 2 links, one is up on a mountain and one is at the main site where the fibre comes in, I am struggling at the moment with supplying bandwidth to the mountain transmitters this is probably temporary when the new LHG60 link is stable I will probably have enough bandwidth, the RB’s are both bridged, I have to bridge the system because I have public IP’s supplying customers routers from a radius server

When I use the bonding commands, the links go down and if one fails it does not switch over because it still has a cable connection on the interface.

I have gone through many examples on the forum and on Greg Sowell’s site all to no avail, I am begging to think I am trying to do the impossible.

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I was facing the same problem a couple of months ago.
I finally ended up using VPLS and it’s working like a charm.

This presentation is a very good point to start with.

-Chris

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at a ripe old age of 71, I am struggling to take this VPLS stuff in, I will get it eventually but these days takes me a little longer.

From the presentation it is not quite what I am trying to do unless I have not understood it, at both end I have 2 interfaces in bridges, these interfaces are connected to two AP’s at the main site and two CPE’s at the other end, at the moment only one is connected and I manually swap them over, the LHG60 link goes off when it rains ( not quite aligned yet, waiting on cherry picker ) but even when aligned would still want the back up.