I have mikrotik router CCR1036 and I have created the Bridge with Multiple ports eth2,eth3, and eth4.
Each port has a 1G port speed. And combining three ports in Bridge can handle the traffic to 3G?
Can someone help me to understand that can we merge the ports in the bridge and make the traffic handle up to 3G or 4G?
Attaching a screenshot of the current Bridge, Out of three ports, it shows port eth3 as the root port and the other two ports are Alternate ports. Screenshot Attached here
If I have traffic of 2G and my eth3 port exhausted its limit of 1G then whether the alternate ports will handle the remaining traffic.
Bridge has similar functionality as switch - passing traffic between member ports, those ports connect to independent parts of same L2 network. What you see is work of xSTP (default is, I believe, MSTP) which detected that those 3 links connect to same peer switch/bridge and has disabled two out of 3 links. If active link fails, bridge will enable one of remaining two links. This is called “loop detection”.
By the sounds of it you’re after link aggregation (a.k.a. bonding) where set of ports connect to same link peer and form single logical link, traffic between pair of peers is then distributed over available physical links (exact distribution depends on configuration details).
Thanks for your response. I am not a network engineer, I am software developer. So answering with yes or no, will be easy to understand for me.
I have mikrotik router CCR1036 and I have created the Bridge with Multiple ports eth2,eth3, and eth4. Each port has a 1G port speed.
By combining three ports in Bridge as mentioned in the above image, can it handle the traffic up to 3G?
Adding ports to a Bridge, just make them able to talk together. Bridge will act just a switch and switch data from one port to another port.
As akakua points out, you need to look at bonding. That will make multiple interface act as one big line.
But there are various types of bonding, look at linked page.
If you have only one server at one side and one client at the other side, bonding will not help, since only one ethernet port will be used.
Bonding works best where multiple hosts talks to multiple host. You will get better performance and redundans if one links dies.
