Hi, got a newbie question:
own a couple of rb113 and rb411 and wanted to make a failover bonding;
As I seen this can be achieved with a linux dedicated machine with multiple nics, but my question is if same purpose can be reached using a rb750:
I mean is it possible to properly program a couple of rb750 ports to be bound one each other, in order they can be seen as a unique port (bond0) that can be routed to remaining ones?
I’d like to know if is this possible.
Thanks to whoever will answer.
yes this can be done. Check this manual link on commands and explantinos:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bonding
Thanks for your answer.
My trial is to connect two buildings whose networks lies on the same subnet: I just placed 2x radio links each side, both of them are connected via dynamic wds.
On the local side I have main server who needs to be seen by the remote side.
Since main purpose is to make a failover (and faster) connection between such buildings, I asked if rb750g was able to do this job.
I read the document you linked, but seen nothing about routing among bonded link ports and the other rb750g ports: I am asking if this is a trivial matter or else if something particular is needed.
from your question in understood that you want to bond ethernet interface, then document i linked you would suffice. You bond 2 ethernets set bonding-mode=ballance-rr and you have twice the capacity.
if you have wireless, it complicates matters a bit. Wireless interface generally is half duplex link, so it really matters how much data is going one direction and how much the other.
using nstream-dual you could create full duplex wireless link (requires 2 wifi cards in each router and set up nstream-dual interface. but that would not provide fail-over if one of links went bad.