Net Power 16P HWoffload Bonding for Wireless Links?

RouterOS General
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Hello I purchased a netpower 16p to power all the devices at my site, it was my intent to bond a few devices and it being a crs3xx had bonding hw offload. However to bond wireless links with any sort of stability you need to do it over vlans as shown here: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Layer2_misconfiguration#Bonding_between_Wireless_links

The bonding does not HWoffload via the vlan interfaces though, or at least I couldn’t get it to work. So, is there any way to achieve this or am I SOL and need a router with some cpu power to get this done?

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I’m waiting for that answer too, budy.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/2-existing-wireless-backhauls-need-bonded/149667/7

BTW, have You tried VLAN option? How is going with CPU on netPower? What links capacity You want to bond? What amount of traffic do You expect in Your case?

What about trying balance xor without VLAN method? I wanted to try on new RouterOS v7 with some hope in balance xor. And tried, but not working for me at all. I think because of VLANs on my CRS. The case is here:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/vlans-does-not-go-through-bonding-xor/162553/1

Cheers,
syd

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A question: why not bond physical devices and run VLANs on top of bond?