NIC-Teaming and Bonding

Hi All,

I want connect 2 Server that have Win Srv 2012R2.
The first Srv have 2 gigabits NIC and the second Srv the same.
I need to increase bandwith between Srv1 and Srv2 through 2 Gigabit NIC Card in teaming setting.
In total i want obtain 2 Gbps link.
For obtain this i’ve configured 2 bonding interface in my routerboard RB850Gx2:

  1. Bonding1 with Ether1 and Ether2 with 802.3ad Srv1
  2. Bonding2 with Ether3 and Ether4 with 802.3ad Srv2
    Are correct my settings ?
    Do you need other information?
    Thanks for your help
    Fabrix

I would use switch indepedent teaming as MT is not good with LACP/Static teaming. And by the way - you must know that you will not have 2 gigabit per one TCP session. Only multiple sessions will be loadbalanced between cards - by the way I suggest to use load balancing algorithm: dynamic
And the second thing - if you want to have full speed when copying files between servers (shared folders / copy / paste) it already works even without switch as Windows server 2012 / R2 / 2016 use SMB 3.x multichannel. But it works only for SMB (file sharing) traffic not for other traffic.

Luka

Hi,

Why do you need to have any configuration on Mikrotik? Can’t you just create the switching group and then configure teaming on the OS?