Hello,
We have 2 links to the same place and i would like to use both, one is capable of 50 and another one is 30, can we use both these and make it 80mbps ? they run from one switch to another, and terminate to the same switch.
I have tried to look into forum but i could not find, may be i dont know if its called bonding or load balance.
Many thanks,
What do you mean you have two links to the same place? Do you have two links to the same ISP, two links to the internet, two links to another router or something completely different?
Sorry for the confusion, our connection to ISP has 2 wireless links, same ISP but 2 wireless links, i was thinking if i am merge them and use them as one, is that possible ? layer 2 bonding.
Hi sir
if links terminate on the same switch and has 2 different IP subnet (2 different VLANs), you can use PCC to load balance or ECMP or policy routing . In this case the theoretical 80Mbits (optimal utilization) could be not reached because for example using as PCC the lan client addresses, if they are not equally distributed , they could concentrate on just 1 of the 2 classifier and of course the link associated with the less populated classifier will get less use.
In IP case , refer to this good example from Mikrotik wiki http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PCC
While if you can aggregate at layer 2 , bonding could be successfully used to merge both ethernet-like links to build a virtual link. In this case you can arrive near the theoretical optimal limit of 80Mbits .
As reference I strongly reccomnd you but probably you already read it) this masterpiece from a past MUM where central topic was load balancing
http://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/US11/us11-megis-lb.pdf
Hoping this will help
Have a nice day